when i was little and i was told that Jesus lived in your heart i used to be afraid to suck on my middle finger because i thought that i was flicking Jesus off.

Anon

i used to picture jesus as a kind of cartoon Tarzan, swinging through the trees...

bex

When I was little my mum told me Jesus was a real person, I thought she meant is somebody walking around- specificly, I decided Jesus was my Sunday school teacher!

Sarah

I used to think it was an article of faith that Jesus never cried when he was a baby. I got this from that line in "Away in a Manger" - "But little Lord Jesus no crying he makes".

PsyXe

I was in Bible study and my friend Lena asked "Was Jesus Jewish? I didn't know that". And she was 35! Doesn't the Catholic teach anything right?

me

When I was little, my mother used to watch Unsolved Mysteries all the time, with the host, Robert Stack. For some reason I got it in my head that God was his twin. Probably because he was so old and venerable and had a scary voice. (The theme music also terrified me.) Now, even to this day, if I have to picture what God looks like, he often looks like Robert Stack.

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When I was a little girl, I believed that Jesus' ENTIRE lifespan was from Christmas Day (when he was born) until Good Friday (when he died)...all in the same year. He had one busy year!

Liz M.

when i was young i thought god was a cloud, big white fluffy cloud floating around with 2 eyes and a smile.

kerrie

I used to think that the Three Stuges were the Three Wise Men. When my dad told me some of the stupid things the stuges did, I thought it was pretty weird...

Laura

As a child in Brazil, someone told me that every night a spirit/saint would come to check on me while I slept.
I imagined her being a slave, with a long dress and wearing a headdress, and being all white.
I made sure I slept on time so she could check up on me, I was afraid I'd make her angry if I didn't sleep on time and she couldn't check on me.
Now being a firm Atheist, I still wonder about this ghost/saint...;)

sad girl

I used to think Jesus was the husband of Mary and God was their baby, and the Pope was Mary's Father. Priests were Mary's brothers.

Anon

I believed God controlled us like we were on a big fooseball table, but the bars that connected us were invisible and bent in many directions

Blake

When I was little I thought the holy spirit was a bird. I don't know why, but that was the image I had in my head.

Cristina

I used to believe that all of the human beings were Gods little dolls.

Danielle

I thought the singer Madonna and the "Madonna" figure were the same person, and that since Madonna came back, she would give birth to the new Jesus. I also thought the phrase "prima donna" was "Pre-Madonna" and meant before having Jesus, so I thought the tv was wrong calling the singer Madonna instead of Pre-Madonna since she had no kids yet.

Allie

One day many years ago as my 2 year old daughter laid her head on my chest, she popped up and said, "Mommy I can hear Jesus knocking on the door of you heart!" She was actually hearing my hear beating.

Melissa Glorioso

I used to have dreams that God was a girl and that she was this big Nun in the sky. Then she would smile at me. This was the result in my mom telling me that God is watching us all the time.

Leigh

until recently, the leader of the archdioces of the Boston Catholic church was Cardinal Bernard Law.
When the whole church molestation scandal started (only a few years ago), I started hearing the phrase "Cardinal Law" in the news a lot. I assumed it was the laws that cardinals, priests, etc. had to follow, and that molesting little boys was against that law. It didn't occur to me that is was somebody's name until I saw him being interviewed on TV!

chris

When he was about 6, my brother was asked at school to draw what he thought God looked like. What he drew was pretty similar to Mr. Potato Head. I myself thought that God looked a bit like Ted from Postman Pat. God himself only knows why!

Stu

I remember that I had a vivid image in my head that God looked like the cartoon version of Inspector Clousaeu from the animated Pink Panther T.V. program, except that he wore a bowler hat and suit and not a brown mac.

Monkey Steve