YOUR WORLD RELIGIOUS NEWS
DAY 16
January 2015
National/World
Publishers of the religious based book of memoirs recording the incident of a 6 year who was wounded in a car accident in 2004 has been pulled from shelves. The popular million dollar best seller "The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven is said to be all made up and not true. The author of the popular seller now 17 years old said that he made up the entire story. In a brief letter written to publishers PulPit and Pen Alex Malarkey wrote with help from his sister " Please forgive this brevity but because of my limitations I have to keep this short. I did not die. I did not go to heaven." In the letter the 17 year continues with statements verfying he made up the entire story to gain attention. He also wrote that before the accident he had never read the Bible. The best-seller book gives the encounters of moments while Alex Marlarkey was in a coma and where he stated he met and spoke with Jesus and also the devil was co-authored by the boy's father Kevin Marklarkey. The boy's mother claimed also she wanted to stop the publishing of the book earlier in April 2014 confided in her pastor the book was not true. However, her pastor told her the book was blessing people. The large sums of monies and royalities were not collected by the authors, but supported charities. Alex Malarkey according to the Washington post confessed the book's story was not true long before now, but Tuesday, January 13, 2015 was his first public statement claiming recantment of his story.
In the letter written to the publishers Alex also stated:
"People have profited from lies and they continue to. They should read the Bible which is enough. The Bible is the only source of truth. Anything written by man is infallible."--Alex Malarkey
NEWS SOURCE:
Yahoo/Washington Post
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