Raised to believe that Jesus was coming back to take Christians away, and having seen some old religious movie where all the Christians disappear and and the anti-Christ or whoever is trying to kill this lady who is left, I would always freak out if my parents were late coming back home and the sky was really weird looking outside. Or, sometimes, if they didn't wake up the usual time, and everything was quiet, and it looked weird outside, I thought they had been taken. I would cry in my bed thinking that I was going to hell and the anti-Christ was coming to get me.

Tater

I used to think God and Godzilla were the same guy. I was very confused about why people seemed to like God so much, and also about how such a huge monster could stay in the clouds and not fall down and squish us all.

Anon

When I was little I refused to believe that the words God and Father were synonmous, this was sort of odd as I went to preschool at my church and I even remember having an argument with my friend over it. She insisted that God was my father while my 3 or 4 year old self knew that my dad was not God, especially since his name was not God but John.

Anon

I used to believe that Jesus' disciples rode motorcycles. It just sounded like the name of a biker group.

James McGee

Until about 2 years ago I believed The Lord was in prison at the moment and that's why we had church...to pray for him. Why did I believe this? Because we say "Jesus Christ has risin." I thought it said "Jesus Christ in prison." So I asked my mom why Jesus went to jail. She was confused.

Cheryl

My mother, the good Catholic, thought that Jesus, being a string bean (supreme being) was really skinny.

Mark D

When I was a kid, I had a mother who painted a lot. Mostly aquarells.. So every time I watched the sunset, I thought that it was God, taking a brake from his stressful life, just to sit down and paint. A different picture every night... =O)

Hilde

I live in Brazil, and speak portuguese. In portuguese, as in some other languages, the word 'heaven' is the same word of 'sky'( it´s the word 'Céu'). So, when I was about 6 or 7, I used to watch out to never be naughty especially when I was outside, ´cos it would be easier for God to see me and get angry with me, as I had no ceiling above my head.

G.Albo

I used to believe that whenever you saw the sun coming through the clouds in precise sunbeams...like they show in illustrated children's bibles...that that meant that God was talking to someone.

I told my husband this and he was very touched...and created a piece of artwork to show this!

Anon

i live in a town called swadlincote and beleived baby jesus was wrapped oin swadlincote (swadling clothes) i thopught my town played an inportant part in the nativity story

jane

When i was young about 5 i used to think god was a donkey with a long beard!

Anon

I used to believe that God looked like George from Seinfeld.

Liz

I went to kindergarden in a Catholic school, and whenever the priest came to visit our class all the other kids would address him as Jesus. He'd sit down to read a story with us and there would be a chorus of children announcing "Hi Jesus!" He'd always blush and say "I'm not Jesus. I just try to do the things that he would do and follow him." It always made me laugh, because I felt like I was the only one with a good enough grasp on theology to distinguish a priest from Jesus.

Margaret

When I was younger around 5 or 6 I used to think that God could see everywhere and everything except the only place he couldn't see was in bathrooms. I thought that God wouldn't want to be a peeping Tom and it was our decision if we wanted him to see us in our birthday suits, lets just say that for a few years the only place that I would get dressed or change in would be the bathroom. Crazy, huh?

Melissa

I picked my daughter up from Catholic School one day and she told me the Mother Superior would be visiting the following day. I asked her "who is the Mother Superior" she replied "the mother of all mothers"

Anon

My older cousin and I were in my bedroom one day and it was just around the time I had been taught the concept of God. I asked her if God was really *everywhere*, and she said, "yes, he's even in this room!" I got really concerened and asked her where exactly in the room he was, and she told me he was sitting in my lap.

I was hysterical for hours after that.

Matt

When I was young I was shopping in London with my mum and we saw the actor Robert Powell. Knowing I wouldn't know his name my mum said "Look there's Jesus!". So I did what anyone would do in Jesus' presence and got on my knees.

Anon

I thought we should love the devil because the devil hates love and therefore would hate the people that loved him. If we hated the devil, well, hate is a bad thing and we'd be playing right into his hand if we hated him.
Loving the devil would really tick him off.

muldoonski

When I first heard the story of Mary and Jesus, I felt for a long time that Virgin Birth could truely happen to me, and I used to believe that one night I would just be lying in bed and it would happen, I was afraid of this for a long time

Katie

I used to think that spelling "G-d" instead of "God" (as per Orthodox Jewish practice) was insulting, as it implied that you didn't care enough about God to spell his name correctly. I marched myself up to the rabbi, full of righteous indignation, and demanded that he fix it so it wouldn't say "g'duh"

L