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Uh, what sort of tangible evidence do they have that proves that "heaven" exists? The Bible isn't evidence. The Bible has claims written into that haven't been proven to be "true". How do we know that "heaven" is a worthwhile place to be anyways? Children can be naïve, why would any rational adult assume and start believing that a child who has a "strange experience" that cannot be immediately explained, as having visited some supernatural realm? Such thinking can be quite harmful. Back in the Middle Ages in Europe in America, people used to accuse their fellow humans of engaging in evil supernatural practices and sought to destroy such persons. Remember what happened in Salem, Massachusetts during the summer of 1692. Nineteen people were executed for supposedly having been engaged in "sorcery". These people came from an extremely fundamentalist Christian community that was also very socially and politically conservative and intolerant towards people who did not conform to their way of life. 
I must say that I find it exploitative that there is a movement of adults who would rally behind that child's story as a "real" occurrence. If a child claimed that Princess Ariel from Atlantica from Disney's 1986 classic animated film " The Little Mermaid" or SpongeBob Squarepants actually did live in the ocean and adults started rallying around this child's claims, would not more skeptical people want tangible evidence to support these claims?






If any adult encouraged a child from birth to believe that Ariel existed and that anyone who does not believe in Ariel's existence, is under the evil influence of Ursula the sea witch without being able to really think about it themselves, like this child, who was raised in a religious environment in which he had no say in the matter, well most people would probably have you sent to a mental hospital.   Look at the Hobby Lobby case where people who own private businesses are arguing to enforce their  personal religious views on their employees who may not share those same beliefs. If someone said that they believe Mickey Mouse told them to discriminate against blacks or Jews, do you think most people would accept that? No. So why should one belief be given privileges over another?  If you want to see what harm religiously-inspired persecution can do and what religious intolerance is truly like, go visit Iran and you'll see what I mean.