I used to believe that Mary Poppin was God's wife. Her name was Mary, after all, and who else could sit on a cloud and fly with a parasol?

M.

my mum asked me when i was about 4 who the first two people on earth were, and i said 'Anorak and Zoe'. ?!?!?

Anon

At school our class of six year-olds were all told to draw a picture of the Nativity to put up on the walls for Christmas. I drew the stable with a lovely light bulb and shade hanging from the ceiling. No one could explain to my satisfaction why there could not be a light bulb hanging over the manger for baby Jesus in case he was scared of the dark. How else would the wise men see where to put the gifts? It went up on the wall and I rode out the ridicule, certain that I was right.

Carol

When I was about 7 or 8, I went to Williamsburg, Virginia for the first time. When we went to the church, I thought the tour guide said "I will be your God" not guide because I wasn't used to the Southern accent. This confused me very much!

Rich

I was born and raised catholic, the church I went to from when I was born to about 7, I always thought the priest was God. It made perfect sense to me because he was always at the front of the church. To this day I still see God as a short bald asian man.

Molly

I used to believe that God was angry with my mom when her laundry got rained on. (I was only 3 or 4).

Morgan Prior

When I was five, I believed God was big as a tree, a tree being the biggest thing I could convieve of.

Chris

When I was like 4-6 I thought God looked like sleepy of the seven dwarfs, and the devil was the evil witch from the Wizard of Oz. I used to talk to them in my head, and the witch was pretty cool, but after all, I didn't know much about the devil except that he was red.

Gigi from NY

My not so nice stepsister told me when I was around 8 yrs old that the devil lived on the top bunk of my bunkbeds (I kept my stuffed animals and spare blankets up there. One day, some blankets must have been pulled over near the edge, and so they came down with a plop by themselves! I ran out screaming, more terrified than I'd ever been in my life. No amount of my parents' reassurance could convince me to go back in there for weeks!

Hilary

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

I used believe that God took your eyes out and looked at your entire life and he would give you 15 strikes if you do 15 bad things in your life you go to hell.

Anon

When I was a ittle kid I asked my dad about God and what he was meant to be, where was he ect. His answer was that god was everywhere... therefore with child logic I assumed this to mean that wherever I looked I would see him, and I ended up spending a lot of time searching behind the couch and in cupboards in order to find god... I never suceeded (I guess I kind of lost my faith after that)

ruth

My older brother used to tell me that if I opened my eyes during prayer at chuch the Holy Spirit would come and get me. You better beleive that for the very influential years of my life that I closed by eyes so tight at chruch that it hurt...anything would be better than the Holy Spirit coming to get you.

Caldwell Texas

When I was little I was constantly afraid of being possessed by the devil, so every day on my way home from school I went into our neighborhood church for a few seconds to reassure myself that the devil is not inside me; because I figured that if I really was possessed then entering the church would make me burn.

Vicky

My extremely religious grandmother used to say when one of us did something bad, "The Devil's on your shoulder!" I would try to turn my head to see him too but I was never fast enough. I went around believing there was a mini-Satan on one of my shoulders counterbalanced by a mini-Jesus on the other, waging a personal struggle for my soul. I was afraid the devil might be winning since he was the one Grandma saw. Scary. The only consolation was that he seemed to spend even more time on my cousin Robbie's shoulder.

Cheri

I believed that baby Jesus didn't have any bodily functions. I think it was an extrapolation from 'Away in a Manger' when it says 'no crying he makes' ... somehow he didn't do anything else either.

Anon

When I was young I knew Santa and the Easter Bunny and all those cool guys were always watching me, and that they always knew if i was naughty or nice or whatever. God was another story. For some reason when I was around 3 or 4 I got this idea in my head that God couldn't see me if I hid under the coveres. My mom would tuck me in and I would not be tired, so after she left I would hide under the covers all sneaky, and not sleep! I would just keep my eyes open as long as I wanted.

Man I was bad..

Krystina

In religious study in school when I was little one of our teachers mentioned that somepeople believe that your conscious is God somehow from this I got the idea that Jiminy Cricket from Pinnocino was God and that the blue fairy was the virgin Mary. This concept didnt go down particularly well when i kept refering to Mary as "that fairy" in Sunday school

da da dum

When I was 6 I used to believe that the devil lived under my bed, and if I misbehaved he would scratch my feet when I am asleep at night. So now that I am 26 I am still afraid that he might scratch my feet when I am asleep, even though he hasen't.

Kate

I used to think Nuns never had to pee...there were no bathrooms for "Nuns" and "Priests." We found a private teacher restroom one day in 8th grade when we helped to put away supplies-mystery solved!

Anon