Well, when I was around 2 our landlord died. I asked Mama where he went. She said he was in a place called Heaven up in the sky with a man called God. I looked up and saw the moon and figured God's face looked like that. For a number of years I thought of God as a man with a face like the moon!

Joe Dunlap

I thought, until very recently (I'm 25), that "Hail" in "Hail Mary" was her title, part of her name. Hail in portuguese, my 1st language, sounds like "bird". So I thought that somehow she was represented as a bird, since it was her title.

Idiot

For the longest time, I believed that if my mom wasn't my mom, that Mary (the mother of Jesus) would have been my mom, and she would have been 'Angela, the mother of Jesus'.

Brad

How could Baby Jesus be born on Dec 25th, get tall, grow a beard and then die, all by Easter. Whew!

Joe

When I was a little girl I thought God only spoke English. Coming from a Spanish-speaking household, I would pray in Spanish, and then "translate" my prayer back to God.

Sara

I used to believe the Christ was born
on Christmas Day and crucified the
following Easter.

William Golding

I used to throw handfuls of sand into the air and then watch it drifting down while yelling, "The SAND GOD! The SAND GOD!" I believed the Sand god was very pleased with my offerings.

Melanjolly

My brother told me that Jesus committed one sin: he broke the bread and gave the small piece to the poor people. I believed this until I was about 11.

gaby

I used to believe that three sheep dogs named Shirley, Gooodness, and Mercy would "follow me all the days of my life" while I dwelled "in the house of the Lord, forever." After all, "The Lord is my shepherd..."

Carrie

When I was little, I used to think that god was living in a yellow house down my street.

LOL child

There were always made up stories for different weather that went on.

I was told that when it rained, either Jesus was taking a shower way up in heaven, or he asked his Daddy (God) to go hang out with his friends, God said no (cause he's the boss) and Jesus cried.

When there was a storm, God was bowling...thunder was the sound of the ball rolling down the aisle, and each time there was a strike, there was lightening.

When it snowed....God had dandruff...

Vanessa

I used to believe Jesus was born every year at Christmas and died every year at Easter. Between Christmas and Easter he lived in Israel, but between Easter and Christmas he lived in heaven and was on vacation. I was upset to find out he only lived and died once thousands of years ago because I thought that meant only people who lived back then got their sins redeemed.

Beverly

To explain the stars coming out at night, I believed that the sky was a giant pin cushion and we were all inside. At night, when God was finished sewing, he would put his pins in the pin cushion, and those were the Stars. I actually envisioned God, sitting there in a barca-lounger, sewing all day, with his pin cushion at his side...

Anon

When I was bout 5 or 6, I was horrified about the colonel on the KFC signs. I believed that he was Satan on earth and I would cry and cover my eyes every time KFC came around.

Kyle Cruzan

i used to believe that the virgin mary in the bible's real name was mary virgin, and obviously was part of the extended virgin family who lived out in the desert - i also just presumed that once you got married you automatically got a baby, and i thought that the big deal about jesus being born was that mary virgin said that she didn't want one, and then got one anyway - imagine my confusion when madonna's like a virgin came out !

saioa

It must have been from watching Disney's Aladdin that I got the idea that God was a large blue man with a turban, a goatee, and the voice of Robin Williams.

Erin

When I was little, my father (Tweedle Lee) had said something to my half-brother (Tweedle Fee) about God coming down and doing something that concerned Fee (I don't remember what). Since I didn't/don't know what God looks like, I just imagined this big, white cross suddenly flying down from the sky and just hovering by our house. I know usually think of him as some huge white robed figure that sits on a gigantic chair, and his face is some sort of blur.

Tweedle Dum

I used to believe that God lived on top of the clouds. The first time I was in a plane, i spend the entire 4 hour flight scanning the clouds hoping to see him.

Vanessa

When i was in 1st grade I used to think that the priest was God. A few months later, the priest changed and i thought God changed into a man's skin. The next week I learned

Alex The King