More mystic malarkey: The boy who came back from Heaven didn't actually go there at all, he admits

More mystic malarkey: The boy who came back from Heaven didn't actually go there at all, he admits, 

but not because he's interested in the truth, rather that his brand of Christianity says "it ain't so".

I don't want to go into too many details, to risk becoming an advert for this thing, but basically back in 2004 there was a case in the U.S. where a young boy entered a coma after being involved in a car accident with his father. He later claimed to have visited Heaven during his unconsciousness and revealed "details that he could not have known" of his time whilst comatose. 

The book can be seen here
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=The+Boy+Who+Came+Back+From+Heaven

along with at least 2 other "associated works" which totally aren't just trying to profit from an emotional story by completely, uncritically and credulously believing what a kid says. Because kids never lie. No, Siree.

Alex has now admitted that he was mistaken

You might think that the reason Alex reneged on his claims of attendance at the Pearly Gates might be because he now realises that it was more likely to be rooted in a psychological phenomenon common to people in a coma. Or maybe he realised that Heaven probably doesn't exist. Or maybe he was just cut up about lying for years and wanted to set the record straight. Any of these would have been commendable, but unfortunately, none are true. 

The real reason he's disclaiming his formerly attested experiences is that they don't conform to his Christian doctrine. Yes, he can't have gone to Heaven and seen Jesus because in his version of Theology, he wouldn't have got there. Seriously, this is one of those rare occasions where a religious experience is claimed to be false because it's not nutty enough.

Perhaps now the original book's subtitle, "A Remarkable Account of Miracles, Angels, and Life Beyond This World" will be posthumously changed to "A Remarkable Account of a boy's dreams not matching up with Christian Theology" but somehow I doubt that will happen.