I was told that if your ever swore in church, as you walked out God would strike you with a bolt of lightning.
A childhood belief about church

others believed things like this
- My Grama always told me that thunder was just God bowling and the lightning was when he got a strike!— Kim
- When I was 10 I thought that if you smoked once God would shoot you with a lightning bolt!— tHOMAS
- I used to believe that thunder happened when God was bowling. Lightning meant he made a strike!Anon
- When I was little my dad told me when ever it thundered it was my Grandma bowling a strike.Anon
- my mum told me when i was 11 if i swore the police would take me to jail. — tg in blue
- I used to think that church songs were pop music. Well, we did sing them in church every week...— Roxy