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When I was younger I was taught about the rapture in Sunday School and how it could happen at any moment. Those who believed, disappeared instantly. For some reason, I believed that this included all animals. So when my dog would go missing and I was home alone, I would ball my head off thinking I was left behind. Needless to say, I kept that poor dog at my side as much as I could. He was my rapture indicator.
j.k.r.
I believed that heaven was pretty straight-forward: Everyone got wings and everyone could do and have everything they wanted.
Naturally, I hoped to die young because I'd be able to really enjoy my wings and free stuff. I figured if I didn't die until I was old, I'd be too slow and tired to do a lot of flying, and I'd end up with boring adult stuff rather than mountins of toys.
Kelsey
I used to believe that when you died, your soul went back to Bible times and you meet Jesus.
My parents are Atheists, but my grandparents are Catholic. One day when I was little my grandma said something about heaven so I asked my dad what it was. He told me that heaven was a big bar in the sky. I believed for several years that I could visit that bar when I grew up.
DJ
Due to a misunderstanding about death and resurrection at Sunday school, I thought that you had to die twice for it to be 'final'. I remember watching Winston Churchill's funeral on TV and everyone being rather surprised when I asked why everyone was upset because he was coming back again afterwards.
Ian
When i was little i thought that heaven looked like where i live here on earth. So everyday i would try to see if i was in heaven by jumping off the couch, if i could fly like Peter Pan then i was in heaven. It hasn't worked yet.
Leah
raised jehovah's witness, i thought "paradise on earth" was under construction. when it was finished, my mom and dad and i could walk to it and stay there happily all day and then come back at sunset. i lost all interest when i learned it would be a permanent thing.
optional
The biggest Greed is wanting an afterlife.If we lived forever on earth with no death.There would be less people who believed in god and more people who believed in ourselfs and the universe.Instead of this "Ultimate Reality" - Anyway humans have a good go at makin' that in the Future.
moonboots
Im 13, and up until I was about 9, I thought that when you died, you could sit on a big cloud and spy on people that you know. I also thought that you eat anything and stay slim..
Lucii
When I was a child I thought your "soul" was your buttocks; because nobody could quite explain to me what a soul was. So when my mom told me when someone dies their soul goes to heaven; I was always picturing all these buttocks soaring up into the sky.
Karen M.
I knew about death alright. from since iw as 3 and frank died. :'( well, anyways, i thought taht instead of just one heaven, it was how you wanted it to be. Like, if you loved wild animals, heaven would be a zoo. i was so sad when i found out i might be wrong.
poisen
I used to believe that the damned had one las chance to save their souls before entering Hell, which wasn't a test of piety or charity, but instead a physical challenge. You could get into Heaven if only you could walk a tightrope a mile long or hold your breath for three minutes.
Spencer
When I was little, I belived that little siblings were evil spirits coming to haunt older children. I was absouelutly horrid to my little brother, until my mom told me that if I hurt my brother again, even if he was a spirit, I would be grounded forever.
Wolf
When my grandfater died when I was six, my mu said that we could go and visit him one day. It wasnt til i was about ten taht I reaslised I'd have to *gasp* DIE to visit him.
Quality Beans
When I was little, I had the theory that if you dive down head first into the groud you would get transported to a firey place and you could do anything you wanted. All of my freinds I ever known would be there and the pain I felt in the real world would all be gone and everything would be good. I don't know where I got thats from. I acully thought about trying that a few times to! Luckily I didnt though
Christine
My friend use to be terrified that on judgement day all humans would stand in an alphebetical line to meet with God. Since her last name is Harris, she would have to stand in line next to the evil king Herrod from the bible. She still gets nervous when people talk about the end of the world!
I used to think that people's souls became angels after they died, because so many people said such things like "I guess God needed another angel" at funerals and such. It wasn't until I was a teen and I studied theology myself that I found that angels are a totally seperate type of being, and that human souls remain human. It was a shock when I realized just how many people are ignorant of their own religion.
As I became an adult, I started to doubt the existence of both angels and souls, so I guess spirituality is another childhood belief I grew out of.
God hangs out with Santa and the Tooth Fairy now.
When I was about 3-5 I thought that I was unlucky not being a tree or a washing machine because these were inmortal
Timo
U kno the song that goes something like "what if God was one of us" i imaged that if God was one us then he must have a house and if he has a house he must have a phone number. if he had a phone number then angels must be answering it (because Gods busy watching out for us). So for a couple years i thought that heavan was a big house and after you die you go to that house and become a seceritary for God. You Manly answer the phone saying "God hotline please hold" or "for miricals press one for blessing press two etc.etc.
I also spent 2 years looking for God's phone number in the phone book.
I want to call God! Silly me!
I used to believe that our soul looks kind of like a pencil, and is golden, and that it lies in the middle of our chest. And when we die, it would fly up to the sky and go to heaven. Later my mom explained to me that the soul is not actually an organ, and that we cannot see it. That really confused me for a while.
Verena
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