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| - Despite this, there is actually a heaven... Not!
- Being the son of a pastor, Colton has been indoctrinated at an early age. His family's constant praying, however, is not enough to stop his appendix from bursting. Colton is rushed to the hospital, where he needs expensive emergency surgery and might not survive. His father goes into a little room and yells at God with good reason. Colton later tells him that he did that. He also tells him that:
- Colton is the three-year-old son of a pastor, who has been brainwashed by his Christian parents. Despite their praying, Colton's appendix bursts, and he needs emergency surgery to get rid of it. When they cart him away to the operating room, he screams and screams. His dad, Todd (who wrote this book with Sarah Palin's ghost writer-surprise, surprise), goes into a private room and yells at God. Of course, in reality he's yelling at nobody and making himself feel worse, but his religion is his problem, not ours. Incidentally if there were a God Todd would have reason to yell, Why should an innocent young child be tormented like that?
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| - Despite this, there is actually a heaven... Not!
- Being the son of a pastor, Colton has been indoctrinated at an early age. His family's constant praying, however, is not enough to stop his appendix from bursting. Colton is rushed to the hospital, where he needs expensive emergency surgery and might not survive. His father goes into a little room and yells at God with good reason. Colton later tells him that he did that. He also tells him that: 1.
* Colton was carried to heaven by angels. 2.
* Jesus rides a "rainbow horse." (It sounds so much like a fairy tale or what a small child would imagine, doesn't it)? 3.
* Colton met a ton of people in Heaven. In addition to Jesus, there are his miscarried sister, his long-dead Grandfather, and even God himself. 4.
* Colton did "homework" in Heaven. This will make it really unattractive to first graders. 5.
* Except for Jesus, who moves "like an elevator," everybody in heaven has wings. 6.
* Jesus also wears a white robe with a purple sash. That looks a lot like the Jesus in that old Children's Bible of yours. Even afterwards, Colton's "heaven experience" seep into life. Although he says that "Jesus loves all children," when his father does a funeral he insists that the dead man "had Jesus in his heart." If the man had been a child, but without Jesus in his heart, where would he go? Heaven or Hell? After kicking and screaming at the hospital, Colton insists his parents pay their medical bills because the doctor "fixed me." Colton's family had major financial troubles, Obamacare could help a little.
- Colton is the three-year-old son of a pastor, who has been brainwashed by his Christian parents. Despite their praying, Colton's appendix bursts, and he needs emergency surgery to get rid of it. When they cart him away to the operating room, he screams and screams. His dad, Todd (who wrote this book with Sarah Palin's ghost writer-surprise, surprise), goes into a private room and yells at God. Of course, in reality he's yelling at nobody and making himself feel worse, but his religion is his problem, not ours. Incidentally if there were a God Todd would have reason to yell, Why should an innocent young child be tormented like that? Colton survives, but four months later he begins to tell Todd and Todd decides that Colton went to Heaven. The only evidence he has is from a four-year-old talking about something that happened when he was three. At that age Children can have difficulty telling fantasy from reality and adult prompting can influence what the child thinks he/she (in this case he) remembers. False memories can happen at any age and young children are particularly susceptible. Sam Harris believes false memories may be involved in this and other near death experiences. But according to Colton and Todd:
* Colton was carried to Heaven by Jesus and some angels. At one point, Colton sat on Jesus's lap and the angels sang songs to them.
* Colton met God, his miscarried sister, John the Baptist, and his great-grandfather who has been dead for thirty years.
* Jesus wore a white robe with a purple sash. Colton says he has, "markers," on his hands and feet. He also rides a rainbow-colored horse. Has Colton seen colorful horses on TV?
* Colton says he "left his body." He could see his dad yelling at God in the little room, his mom making phone calls, and the doctors operating on him.
* Colton did, "homework," in Heaven.
* In Heaven, everybody has wings. The one exception is Jesus, who moves, 'like an elevator."
* At one point, Todd has to do a funeral. When Colton finds out what a funeral is, he keeps demanding to know if the guy was Christian and that if he isn't Christian, he'll go to Hell. We mustn't forget of course that Jesus lovers us all. (I bet if Jesus said that Non-Christians still went to heaven, Colton would have had a huge tantrum due the fundamentalist lies his dad had believed and taught him.)
* Ironically, Colton also says that, "Jesus loves all children." So does Jesus love all children or does Jesus only love Christian children? Harris notes that the child's experience contradicts the near death experience of a neurosurgeon Dr. Eben Alexander, who wrote yet another profitable best seller about the near death experience. Unsurprisingly, the two books offer incompatible views of what life is like beyond the prison of the brain. (As colorful as his account is, Alexander neglects to tell us that Jesus rides a rainbow-colored horse or that the souls of dead children must still do homework in heaven.) After Colton's near-death experience, his parents got $23,000 in medical bills, and Colton told them that Jesus said that they needed to pay the doctor because he, "fixed me." That's right, when a family just suffered the stress and perhaps the money problems that go with a family member being seriously ill they must pay the doctors. Colton's Family were lucky, they managed a best selling book that almost certainly paid all their medical costs. Most people who face massive medical bills aren't so lucky, In the USA uncovered medical costs are a frequent cause of bankruptcy and Homelessness. The United States badly needs Universal Health Care.
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