On Boys Who Don't Really Go To Heaven

Alex Malarkey, (what a name for a kid who recants best-selling biographical literature!) has recanted the story line of his best seller, The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven, stating that he made the whole story up, and that he did it to gain attention. Unfortunately, his father seems to own his intellectual rights to his story, be it fantasy or not, and his rights to make changes to it have been horribly impeded. The publisher decided to take the book out of print and remove it from retailers' shelves, anyway. Another junior fantasy writer, Colton Burpo, (one more interesting surname for a kid who's been discouraged from critical thinking) was recently promoted in Marysville, Kansas, and captured the interest of many fans who care about delusional interpretations of christian dogma, but apparently do not care about exploitation of children. Burpo has yet to recant, but when he does, are the christian morons who bought his book and his story going to settle down and shut the hell up? A quote from the article in the Marysville Advocate (no offence, Sarah Kessinger, you are not at fault for the subject matter) states:

Alice Jones, Frankfort, thought the presentation was “absolutely wonderful. They did a good job of explaining their situation and how it changed their lives,” she said. “They gave God the praise for it. I thought they were very sincere in their story,” she said. “They are just common people, like you and I, and they put that across really well. It makes me excited that they have decided to glorify God by their appearances in various places.”

Alice Jones, of Frankfort, is the library director who determined, when a child participating in a school sponsored program in the library showed up under the influence of alcohol and drugs, that "Jesus" had spoken with her, in her head, telling her that she should not contact school administration and law enforcement, as required by state and federal law, and report the underage drinking and use of illicit drugs by the child. She actually had the gall to explain the alleged words of Jesus to the parent of another child, who also participated in the school sponsored program at the library. The parent of the other child was not only angered at her child's first exposure to underage drinking and illegal drugs, but was rather offended at the idea that someone's deity would determine that it's permissible to violate the law and harm children who are not criminals or drunks, because Jesus had "authorized" it! Does this sound like a religion that anyone should actually practice? Or does it sound like fraud and delusion? If Jesus really thinks that it is okay to violate the law in order to protect a child involved in crime to the endangerment of other children, perhaps federal authorities should partner with local police departments to investigate christian churches more often.

Malarkey and Burpo are examples of children who suffer from mass hysteria, and Alice Jones typifies an adult suffering from similar delusions. Unfortunately, both children have been exploited by others and have had the rights to their intellectual property pracatically raped. Alice Jones is an example of an adult who suffers from a cultural, or mass delusion. The fact that she was breaking the law by allowing minors to drink and abuse drugs at the public library was unimportant to her, as was the well being of all witnesses. Alex Malarkey has already apologized for his part in the corruption of his story. The family whose child was exposed to crime and addiction at the direction of Jesus and the delusion of Alice Jones is still waiting for an apology.

* Your faithful medium had difficulty finding representations of "heaven" or "jesus" that featured races other than Caucasian. Coincidence?