I used to think that the small sheep on a picture my mam had of jesus birth in the stable was "Worthy" the lamb. This was due to the part of the catholic mass that goes "Worthy the lamb of God, who takes aways the sins of the world. Blessed are we who are called to his supper."

Mal

Whenever I saw the movie Joseph and the Amazing Technocolor Dreamcoat, it showed the pharoe dressed like Elvis at one point and singing like him. (This was a joke because they called Elvis the King and whatever). I really thought that in real life Elvis was the pharoe and that this didn't take place in the biblical times, but when my parents were kids.

Adam

when i was younger about 7ish me and my friends thought we had summoned the devil to posses my toy skeleton we were so scared we cut the toy into loads of pieces and buried them in different parts of the garden a few months later we saw one of the pieces on the ground (we didnt bury them very far under) and thought it was trying to put it self back together i believed this for years it was soooo scary

Anon

I used to believe that when they said the communion was the body of chirst that they literally had Jesus' body in the back and that they were serving it to people.

Anon

As a child in Sunday School, I read in the Bible that Jesus healed people with divers diseases. What the heck kind of disease could a scuba diver get? It makes a big difference when you add the letter e to divers.

J Boyd

i used to believe that god gave everyone the same amount of money in the beginning and all the people in poor places like africa wasted theres and all the rich people spended there wisely

jane

I used to believe that every religous Christmas card we recieved was sent to us by God.

Anon

When I was a kid, because God lived in Heaven, I thougth all the places in the Bible were in Heaven too, imagine my astonishment when watching the TV one day and there was film footage from Bethlehem, I was stunned and couldn't figure out how they'd gotten the cameras into Heaven, much less why everyone in Heaven [actually the good people of Bethlehem] were wearing regular clothes like "real" people ...

Lobelia Overhill

When I was about 3 in the early '70s my mom and I were on a bus going to visit my grandpa. This hippie got on the bus who looked EXACTLY like Jesus! Not only that, but he had a T-shirt with a picture of Jesus on the front. As soon as he got on the bus I yelled, 'Look mommy, it's Jesus!' I thought it was pretty cool that Jesus was riding with us. Of course my mom was embarrassed.

Elaine

when I was little I used to think that when you said the word "Godzilla you were saying God's name in vain

Stargirl

I used to believe that God was a hedgehog!!! Silly I know, but I was about 6!

Amy-Jo

As a child, I went to a Christian school and they always told us that one day we were going to meet god. Subsequently, I thought "god" was an actual person. As in, someone we were going to meet for lunch one day. I was downtrodden to find this wasn't the case.

The Incredible Mr. Yes Yes

I was raised in an Athiest environment, so naturally, I didn't know hardly anything about the Christian religion until neighbours and classmates told me about it. When I was around 4 years old one of my older neighbours explained to me the story of Jesus Christ, saying that he was my saviour and he died on the cross for my sins. Having explained what sins were but not understanding what a cross was, I understood that somebody died on some railroad crossing trying to save me for some bad things I had done. My parents ended up laughing at how upset I got.

Hallie

i used to get prophets and prostitutes mixed up because i thought they were the same thing! lol
People werent happy when i called the prophets prostitutes!!!

SOS

That God was always watching you, and if you were naughty he would kill you

Alex

I thought all angels were named Harold, because of Hark, the Herald (Harold??) Angels Sing. This really confused me because my best friend's father was named Harold and he was no angel. He drank beer and used bad words.

Texas granny

my husband figured out when he was very small that he must be jesus. he knew that his dad's name was joseph, but never knew what his mom's name was because his dad always used to call her 'mom'. hubby figured her name must be mary, and he knew his brother couldn't be jesus because his name was frank, so, bless him, he decided that he must was jesus. i think thats soooo sweet!! his mom's name was lily, by the way!

lou

Until a few months ago (and we are both 13) when discussing 'Joseph and his technicolour dreamcoat', my friend realised that that story and many others including Noah are all actually in the Bible and not just made up by writers and composers.

Snap-hiss

I used to believe that there were two different pasts that everyone argued about: the dinosaur age and what happened in the bible. I heard that people argued about which one was true and which was false. Well, i knew that it had to be one or the other, because i could never imagine Jesus and a t-rex living together in harmony.

Guess

One Christmas eve my brother convinced me that the pope was Baptist. He told me everytime our dad used the expression "is the pope catholic" that he was really using it to say no instead of yes. On Christmas morning when asked if I liked my presents I responded "well, is the pope baptist." I recieved many confused looks and my brother laughed histerically.

Anon