men wrote the bible as well and they stole stuff from others cultures and made up lots of stuff.

other works were excluded.

with every scribe probably misreading some letters or texts or possibly throwing in some of their own ideas.

And let's not even talk about translations where one language takes on a whole new meaning from another language.

These days their gawds talk to them - back then apparently they wrote for them as well.

who claims a direct line to gawd - that is the right gawd.

oldest profession

I can't believe people fell for this

And that horrible movie made a ton of money from gullible people (I watched it on Starz)

I know the other one is a completely different story.

as in, sounds like malarkey. Hellllllllooooooooooooooo

There's no way I'd buy a fanciful, supposedly non-fiction book from someone named "Mularkey." That's just asking to be screwed. Out of money, I mean.

My understanding is that the family changed their last name when they came in through Ellis Island-- from Bullshyte.

there is a guy named Joe Bullshit who has a very credible story of going to heaven.

"And after your death, when most of you for the first time realize what life here is all about, you will begin to see that your life here is almost nothing but the sum total of every choice you have made during every moment of your life. Your thoughts, which you are responsible for, are as real as your deeds. You will begin to realize that every word and every deed affects your life and has also touched thousands of lives."

SOURCE: http://www.near-death.com/experiences/experts02.html

Going from personal experience, I think the good doctor summed things up pretty well.

that's pretty good.

The heaven boy is named Malarkey!

Oh Lawd it's too perfect.

Poor kid is brainwashed. Who does he think wrote the bible?

because of his frame of mind . . . repenting from his own lies. Maybe he thinks everyone lies. Or something.

Or rather dictated it to Moses? I recall Moses seemed to like to do things HIS way, not GAWD's*.
And I guess to others in different languages with different meanings and results?

As said above, too many humans involved to keep it non-political.
Who the hell was King James anyway, I thought he was Anglican.

And why didn't it have any passages about Odin?

I mean: WTF?


*i spelled it the way i hear it from the tv preachers...

I did a double take at the link just to make sure this wasn't an Onion story.. the irony of that last name with this story.. very humorous.

I thought this was The Onion because of the name.

I'm sure a six year old's account of heaven from his coma it TOTALLY legit! A fool and his money are soon parted.

I have friends who were totally taken by this young boy's story and glommed onto it as a sign from the Bible.

I should point this out to them, but I'm sure they've seen it. They won't mention the sham, though.

he had been intimidated by radical Atheists, the New Black Panther Party and the characters from Garfield and Friends

Because we all know that Obama controls all three groups
I think he is actually Roy the Rooster or maybe Wade the Duck
I'll have to re-watch the shows

Always going around brainwashing people. Sure, he puts on a big, dumb act. But you know he's always scheming how to hurt the devout.

Oh sure, you'd think it's Nermal. But Odie wants you to believe that.

;{

See you there!

Good grief-a-gravy! Satire is precisely the rhetorical instrument to be wielded in cases like this; it is the throwing of a cold bucket of water in the face of those who have had their intelligence bewitched by the beauty of language. Especially when such language is but pandering and pandemoniac non sequitur--an eruption of absurdity, of ridiculous dogma and cant catering to one's basest, most child-like and narcissistic instincts.

The answer to Tertullian--"Credo quia absurdum" ("I believe because it is absurd,&quot

was provided by Voltaire: "Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities."

So warm and toasty.
God greeted me personally.
He wasn't anything like I envisioned... red skin, goatee, long pointy fingernails, a tail

Come on it was right there on the cover.

Hey they got a movie deal out of it. Cha-CHING!

Glenn Beck and others pimped they hell out of this book. That was the second clue that this was malarkey.

It would be impressive enough even if he'd only admitted his deception, but he actually calls out retailers for bearing false witness if they continue to profit from the book.

Sure, he's failing to make the connection between his made-up story and the made-up stories of bronze age tribes, but I'll give him credit for fessing up at all. Too many charlatans simply double down when challenged about their snake oil. Nice to see one givijg a different response for once.

but I notice no mention of returning the money he and his family made from this hoax, just retailers. Until he makes that happen, I give no accolades for his admission.

I'm not going to stomp on him while a team of physical therapists are still moving his feet on the rehab treadmill for h
im.

The fools who paid money for his fairy tale have no one to blame but themselves. He could have kept quiet about it like nearly all of the other religious hucksters have done over the millennia and continue to do, but he made a different choice.


I wish him luck.

It's all bullcrap...imagine that






"You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion." - L. Ron Hubbard

From an Amazon review (2/2013):

During the very beginning of his fame, his parents and families are also hogging up the attention to promote the glory of their family and bible. I knew something was off about that family right away. I didn't read the book and didn't watch that movie either. I'm floored by money-making machine this book has made for boy and his family.

Kudos to boy for bravely stood up and telling the truth. I can respect him more than for family of his which I care not to even mention.

Pretty certain his prior lies led to a nice paycheck for his parents, and probably paid a bunch of his medical bills, with a nice chunk of change left over. Will he be offering to return any fraction of that?

So easy to repent, isn't it, when you don't have to actually suffer the consequences?

There is a chance it is sitting in a fund waiting for him to go to college or something, but odds are probably better the family used the funds to cover bills and expenses incurred during his multi-month hospital stay, subsequent recovery and current health care.

So I will expect that when he turns 18, he will open his account and provide a pro-rata refund to anyone who can show proof of purchase.

I'll just be over here holding my breath.

The father is the author of the book, not the kid, isn't that correct?

and turned it into a book that claims to present new insights into heaven, angels, and hearing the voice of God are a stellar example of people deserving of mockery. Clearly haven't read any Kohlberg, Fowler, or Piaget. (Not that some of their stuff isn't worthy of a little mockery too) But a six year old held up as a reliable "witness?" That is comic gold right there.

It was so juvenile that the little boy could have written it.

is that Alex and his father have absolutely the most appropriate last name I've seen in a very long time.

Praise Loki!

Whoa. That shoulda rung a few bells, what?

"They should read the Bible, which is enough. The Bible is the only source of truth."

Maybe in time the other shoe will drop.

Here are a few key background details of the story: Alex Malarkey was paralyzed at the age of 6 when he was in a car wreck. He then spent two months in a coma. He's now a teenager. The book lists him as a co-author along with his father, Kevin Malarkey.

Calling the book a "spiritual memoir," The Washington Post notes that it "became part of a popular genre of 'heavenly tourism,' which has been controversial among orthodox Christians."

Alex's parents are now divorced; he and his siblings live with his mother, Beth Malarkey, who has previously spoken out against the book (and last year, a movie) featuring her son. She has also said that profits from the book haven't been going to Alex.

Last spring, Beth Malarkey wrote a blog post stating, "Alex's name and identity are being used against his wishes (I have spoken before and posted about it that Alex has tried to publicly speak out against the book), on something that he is opposed to and knows to be in error according to the Bible."

She added, "I am fully aware of what it feels like to be pulled in. There are many who are scamming and using the Word of God to do it. They are good, especially if you are not digging into your Bible and truly studying it. They study their audience and even read 'success' books to try to build better and bigger ... 'ministries/businesses.' "