When i was younger i would go to church with my grandpa, well they always too offerings and said it was for God. So i thought that after Church each Sunday the Pastor would stand there holding the bowl up and the money would fly up to Heaven

Whitney

i used to believe that being christan was a religon by its self like being methodiest. untill i said that one day in sunday school and everyone laughed at me.

blake

I used to believe that when the priest was blessing someone who had died and they said "God Bless so and so. In baptism so and so died with Christ..." Well I used to think that the babies drowned during their baptism, when in reality they were older people who had died...my cousin believed that too.

Anon

At my church there was a wide side walk like pathway that led to the sanctuary and it went up in the middle so i beleived that was where God was burried (like he was dead) so i tried to step lightly and i got mad when fat people walked on it.

Khristian

I used to believe that people were chosen by the pastor to be baptized and not of their own choice. I went to church ever Sunday scared to death that I would be "chosen" to be dunked in the water.

Anon

i used to believe that everyone was just either Jewish or Cristian, I didn't know there was anything else. I would go around asking people whether they were Jewish or Christian.

Rebecca

When I was little, I used to believe that anyone who didn't attend my Church worshiped the devil. Duh - what other choice would they have had? However, it was interesting how normal they could appear...

Anon

When I was about 3 years old, I went to church with my mom and dad. They told me all about church and told me that it was God's house (that was so I would behave, I had to behave at other people's houses). Well, when I got there and church started, I was looking all around the pews and picking up the kneelers and hymnals. My parents asked me what I was doing and I said "I'm looking for God... this is his house and he isn't even here... that is very rude, mommy." Later on I learned the truth.

Lisa

I used to think the nuns were called numbs, and I still don't know why!

Anon

I used to believe that Darth Maul lived in my church.

Sarah

As the lights dimmed before my brother's baptistism service, my little sister stood up on the pew and shouted, "When does the movie start!"

mistaken1

When I was young,I attended a church program called Awanas. I always thought that marijuana was somehow related to my church group, because they sounded similar and I didn't know what marijuana was.

Anon

In the LDS (mormon) faith, when you are baptized a prayer is said and then you are submerged, when i was little i used to think that they put you under the water and said the prayer while you held your breath..it scared me stiff until i witnessed the baptism of my older brother

Jordan

I could never figure out why priests worked on Sunday which God had made a day of rest

johnboy

I never thought this, but when I was a kid a guy my age told me that the New Testament was just the New Testament until the next Testament would be published. Then what we know as the New Testament would become the Old Testament. I asked him he was wrong and asked what they'd do with the current Old Testament. I never got a good answer to that one.

Lee

In CCD class, the teacher read the story of Jesus and the lepers. I, however, thought she was saying leopards. I could not understand WHY Jesus would have to CURE LEOPARDS and I definately understand WHAT He did to them to CURE them!
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Dawn

When I was young I went to a Catholic church where they served communion. Communion is when they would give church members a small piece of bread which represented the body of Jesus Christ. I used to believe when I ate the piece of communion bread that I was actually eating a part of an arm or a toe off of Jesus's body.

Kelsey

I used to believe that Jerusalem, Egypt Babylon and all other great cities of the bible are in heaven and all the stories of the bible took place in heaven

Dapsyra

When I was little my friend and I belived we were God's flowers and every few weeks we needed watering (rain) :)

Anon

I remember when I was about 9 or 10 I was over my friends house for the weekend. Well, we were enjoying a picnic lunch in her front lawn, when we overheard her mom on the phone "Get your bibles! Their gonna get us!" We thought sh was having some sort of vision or seizure or something, so we ran inside and asked what she was talking about. She told us that the Mormons were going around the neighborhood and jokingly said that if we didn't convert to their religion, they would send us to hell. Needless to say, we were creeped out for the rest of the day, looking over our shoulders for what we called the Hellraisers. We saw two men in suits walking down the opposite side of the road, and knew it was them. We took refuge in the van, and watched the men knock the neighbors' door. All we were thinking was "Don't open the door Brian, please don't open the door." Well, Brian didn't answer the door, much to our relief, and we were inside the house watching TV when the doorbell rang. We begged my friend's mom not to open the door, and she gave us the strangest look. We listened to her conversation with the men, and they turned out to be pretty mice guys. She invited them in, and we all chatted for a bit. They informed us that because of their faith, they had to do this every week for a year, and were only allowed 2 phone calls home each, and one letter a month. We felt pretty sorry for them when they left, and couldn't wait until the next time they would visit. Of course, out of politeness, we never called them Hellraisers to their faces, but still talk about it at parties.

Alex