The new Twilight, "Heaven is for real"

[Cain]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/12/books/heaven-is-for-real-is-publishing-phenomenon.html

Just two months shy of his fourth birthday, Colton Burpo, the son of an evangelical pastor in Imperial, Neb., was rushed into emergency surgery with a burst appendix.

He woke up with an astonishing story: He had died and gone to heaven, where he met his great-grandfather; the biblical figure Samson; John the Baptist; and Jesus, who had eyes that "were just sort of a sea-blue and they seemed to sparkle," Colton, now 11 years old, recalled.

Colton's father, Todd, has turned the boy's experience into a 163-page book, "Heaven Is for Real," which has become a sleeper paperback hit of the winter, dominating best-seller lists and selling hundreds of thousands of copies.

Thomas Nelson, the book's publisher, said it had broken company sales records. The publisher, based in Nashville, began with an initial print run of 40,000 copies. Since the book came out in November, it has gone back to press 22 times, with more than 1.5 million copies in print. On the New York Times best-seller list for paperback nonfiction last Sunday, "Heaven Is for Real" was No. 1. The book remains in the top spot this coming Sunday.

Yes, he "recalled" that quite well, for a four year old.  And I'm sure having a pastor as a father means his head isn't a jumble of religious symbology at all.

Putting it in the nonfiction is a nice touch, too.

[President Television]

[Don Coyote]

FUCKING JUGGALOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

Jesus has sparkly eyes, now. Awesome. Does he shoot mind lasers from them?

[Phox]

Jesus has sparkly eyes, now. Awesome. Does he shoot mind lasers from them?

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erkpm6QggrU

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

Mr. Baugher said, adding that his initial skepticism about the Burpo family's story was short-lived. "This was a very down-to-earth, conservative, quote-unquote normal Midwestern family. We became fully convinced that this story was valid. And also that it was a great story that would just take off."

So because this very religious family was also "normal" and conservative he believed their story.

[BabylonHoruv]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/12/books/heaven-is-for-real-is-publishing-phenomenon.html

Just two months shy of his fourth birthday, Colton Burpo, the son of an evangelical pastor in Imperial, Neb., was rushed into emergency surgery with a burst appendix.

He woke up with an astonishing story: He had died and gone to heaven, where he met his great-grandfather; the biblical figure Samson; John the Baptist; and Jesus, who had eyes that "were just sort of a sea-blue and they seemed to sparkle," Colton, now 11 years old, recalled.

Colton's father, Todd, has turned the boy's experience into a 163-page book, "Heaven Is for Real," which has become a sleeper paperback hit of the winter, dominating best-seller lists and selling hundreds of thousands of copies.

Thomas Nelson, the book's publisher, said it had broken company sales records. The publisher, based in Nashville, began with an initial print run of 40,000 copies. Since the book came out in November, it has gone back to press 22 times, with more than 1.5 million copies in print. On the New York Times best-seller list for paperback nonfiction last Sunday, "Heaven Is for Real" was No. 1. The book remains in the top spot this coming Sunday.

Yes, he "recalled" that quite well, for a four year old.  And I'm sure having a pastor as a father means his head isn't a jumble of religious symbology at all.

Putting it in the nonfiction is a nice touch, too.

I wonder if they realize giving Jesus blue eyes instead of brown (like a middle Eastern Jew would probably have) makes them look that much less credible?  I wonder if Samson and John had blue eyes too?

[Lyris_Nymphetamine]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw-wM-u8-aA

Just as lulzy.

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/12/books/heaven-is-for-real-is-publishing-phenomenon.html

Just two months shy of his fourth birthday, Colton Burpo, the son of an evangelical pastor in Imperial, Neb., was rushed into emergency surgery with a burst appendix.

He woke up with an astonishing story: He had died and gone to heaven, where he met his great-grandfather; the biblical figure Samson; John the Baptist; and Jesus, who had eyes that "were just sort of a sea-blue and they seemed to sparkle," Colton, now 11 years old, recalled.

Colton's father, Todd, has turned the boy's experience into a 163-page book, "Heaven Is for Real," which has become a sleeper paperback hit of the winter, dominating best-seller lists and selling hundreds of thousands of copies.

Thomas Nelson, the book's publisher, said it had broken company sales records. The publisher, based in Nashville, began with an initial print run of 40,000 copies. Since the book came out in November, it has gone back to press 22 times, with more than 1.5 million copies in print. On the New York Times best-seller list for paperback nonfiction last Sunday, "Heaven Is for Real" was No. 1. The book remains in the top spot this coming Sunday.

Yes, he "recalled" that quite well, for a four year old.  And I'm sure having a pastor as a father means his head isn't a jumble of religious symbology at all.

Putting it in the nonfiction is a nice touch, too.

I wonder if they realize giving Jesus blue eyes instead of brown (like a middle Eastern Jew would probably have) makes them look that much less credible?  I wonder if Samson and John had blue eyes too?

He was obviously seeing the Maud'Dib

[Nast]

God controls the spice. Why else do you suppose he controls the universe?

[Lies]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/12/books/heaven-is-for-real-is-publishing-phenomenon.html

Just two months shy of his fourth birthday, Colton Burpo, the son of an evangelical pastor in Imperial, Neb., was rushed into emergency surgery with a burst appendix.

He woke up with an astonishing story: He had died and gone to heaven, where he met his great-grandfather; the biblical figure Samson; John the Baptist; and Jesus, who had eyes that "were just sort of a sea-blue and they seemed to sparkle," Colton, now 11 years old, recalled.

Colton's father, Todd, has turned the boy's experience into a 163-page book, "Heaven Is for Real," which has become a sleeper paperback hit of the winter, dominating best-seller lists and selling hundreds of thousands of copies.

Thomas Nelson, the book's publisher, said it had broken company sales records. The publisher, based in Nashville, began with an initial print run of 40,000 copies. Since the book came out in November, it has gone back to press 22 times, with more than 1.5 million copies in print. On the New York Times best-seller list for paperback nonfiction last Sunday, "Heaven Is for Real" was No. 1. The book remains in the top spot this coming Sunday.

Yes, he "recalled" that quite well, for a four year old.  And I'm sure having a pastor as a father means his head isn't a jumble of religious symbology at all.

Putting it in the nonfiction is a nice touch, too.

I wonder if they realize giving Jesus blue eyes instead of brown (like a middle Eastern Jew would probably have) makes them look that much less credible?  I wonder if Samson and John had blue eyes too?

The fact that they're christians and the kid was probably under a lot of heavy medication doesn't make it less credible already?

[Luna]

Also, the fact that, according to at least one review of the book, the kid's heart never stopped...

http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2011/02/book-review-heaven-is-for-real/

[P3nT4gR4m]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/12/books/heaven-is-for-real-is-publishing-phenomenon.html

Just two months shy of his fourth birthday, Colton Burpo, the son of an evangelical pastor in Imperial, Neb., was rushed into emergency surgery with a burst appendix.

He woke up with an astonishing story: He had died and gone to heaven, where he met his great-grandfather; the biblical figure Samson; John the Baptist; and Jesus, who had eyes that "were just sort of a sea-blue and they seemed to sparkle," Colton, now 11 years old, recalled.

Colton's father, Todd, has turned the boy's experience into a 163-page book, "Heaven Is for Real," which has become a sleeper paperback hit of the winter, dominating best-seller lists and selling hundreds of thousands of copies.

Thomas Nelson, the book's publisher, said it had broken company sales records. The publisher, based in Nashville, began with an initial print run of 40,000 copies. Since the book came out in November, it has gone back to press 22 times, with more than 1.5 million copies in print. On the New York Times best-seller list for paperback nonfiction last Sunday, "Heaven Is for Real" was No. 1. The book remains in the top spot this coming Sunday.

Yes, he "recalled" that quite well, for a four year old.  And I'm sure having a pastor as a father means his head isn't a jumble of religious symbology at all.

Putting it in the nonfiction is a nice touch, too.

I wonder if they realize giving Jesus blue eyes instead of brown (like a middle Eastern Jew would probably have) makes them look that much less credible?  I wonder if Samson and John had blue eyes too?

Christianity - has nothing to do with credibility. And I'm with Cain - non fiction is the punchline here Damn those bookstores for not having a proper "spurious bullshit" section 

[Luna]

Christianity - has nothing to do with credibility. And I'm with Cain - non fiction is the punchline here Damn those bookstores for not having a proper "spurious bullshit" section 

Sure they do.