There is seemingly no limit to the lows Christians will go to, to indoctrinate children into believing in their imaginary friend. Look at this book title, currently a NYT bestseller :
This is based on another book telling the same story, “Heaven is for real”. The story goes like this : Little Colton Burpo develops appendicitis, complicated by perforation, he gets very sick, has some kind of NDE, gets saved by science, medicine, doctors and nurses, and then gets told by his parents that it must be god who saved him, and that he indeed went to heaven and came back.
“It is a simple and pure message from the experience of a four year old child: ‘Jesus really loves children. And He loves You!’ ” says Laura Minchew, senior vice president of speciality publishing at Thomas Nelson.
“What a delight to see this message resonating with so many families.”
Colton’s experience of Heaven is brought to life through illustrations Wilson Ong to give children a taste of what he saw and know too that Jesus really, really loves children.
Sorry folks, but this is child abuse. A 4 year old is told his NDE was him going to heaven and then coming back, that’s lying, and not in a harmless “Santa exists” way. That kid would have been traumatised by his severe illness, and to survive just for his parents to brainwash him into the Christian cult is beyond contempt. It does not follow from one child surviving peritonitis that there is a god who loves children. Rather, what follows is that there is no god, and if there were to be a god, it is either a god who doesn’t care, or is unable to intervene when kids get sick, i.e. it’s a useless god.
I have nothing but contempt for believers who use the illness of a child as an excuse and an opportunity to proselytize. It’s disgusting. And to do it in the disguise of a children’s book is even more contemptible.
