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

When I was four and somewhat Christian (I didn't know anything except the basics), I thought that there were three equal and holy people; God, Jesus and Santa Claus.

We pray to God, Jesus and the Holy Santa Claus

Once when I was probably about 3 or 4, I was at daycare where my older sister and her friend happened to mention God. I asked who God was and they told me all about a big man in the sky who created everything. For some reason, I thought of one of the Bananas in Pajamas wearing an angel costume in the sky with a glittery wand- I have no idea why! It took me years to stop picturing God as B1!!

Hail B1

When I fiirst heard about Pontious Pilate. I thought his last name was spelled "pilot". This was also compounded by the fact that this was at a time when I had not yet learned about the Wright Brothers in school and how the airplane was not invented until around the 1920's.
This made me think that Pontious was some guy that flew an airplane.

Will

When I was little i used to think that angels lived in clouds. So when the weatherman said Sunny with no clouds, i got worried that nobody would be there to protect me.

Edgar Mendez

I found out pretty early that there was no such thing as santa or the tooth fairy so I thought that God was just another made up story to make me behave.

This didn't go over too well since my grandpa's a preacher.

Lissa

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

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

I used to blieve that the orange center of marshammow easter eggs was Jesus...

Hayley

When I was about 5 or 6 and heard about the Holy Spirit, I was really freaked out; maybe I associated "spirit" with ghosts or something. Around the same time, my grandparents had these old G.I. Joes and Star Trek guys, and there was one with black suction cups on his hands. So when I was little, I imagined the Holy Spirit as a fully poseable plastic guy with black suction cups for hands.

xfilesfan

When I was younger, I always used to believe that Monks would marry Nuns, and that NO ONE ELSE could do so. This also supplied me with a reason as to why they dressed so funny. Little did I know that to marry was a big no-no for these religious people.

Anon

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 use to believe until theology class in 10th grade, that Pontious pilot was a mountain. And Jesus Crist was crucified in the shadow of this huge mountain. You know, he was crucified under pontious pilot.

Anon

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