America's youngest scam artist.

I find it infuriating that Comcast, in promoting the movie Heaven is for Real describes it as a true story. Heaven is for Real is a brilliant, money-making scam dreamt up by Todd Burpo and Lynn Vincent and is no more based on fact than The Wizard of Oz. The scam, which began with a best-selling book supposedly tells about a visit to heaven of Todd Burpo's four-year-old son, Colton. Happy to oblige his con-man father, Colton testified to all kinds of ethereal cliches that were sure to be believed by fantasy-hungry Christians. And while the lies kept rolling out, the money kept rolling in. The book was so popular with gullible magical thinkers that it was soon made into a successful movie, bringing still more riches to the highly imaginative grifter, Todd Burpo. Most disappointing to me is that an actor I once admired, Greg Kinnear, was not only willing to star in this film, but agree to perpetuate the fraud that this doughy little Nebraskan (Dorothy already had dibs on Kansas) actually visited heaven. But, of course, the Colton clan would have been exposed and embarrassed immediately if the news media and entertainment industry weren't so eager to perpetuate the scam and refer to this absurd invention as a "true story".