While at nursery school, aged four, we were all taken to the Church next door for Harvest Festival. The headmistress told us we had to be on our best behaviour because we were in God's house.
I was seriously expecting him to be there, and very disappointed that he wasn't in when we came round.
A childhood belief about church

others believed things like this
- i thought going to school was getting on the bus and driving round all day until they dropped you off. Anon
- for the longest time every i used to think that Prince's "Raspberry Barret" said "round merry go round"— lin
- i used to believe that if i wasn,t at school the teachers would expell me from that school!!— sciver
- -nursery rhymes-
i used to believe that cows could jump over the moon when I was a kid.— Aloysius - I used to think that church songs were pop music. Well, we did sing them in church every week...— Roxy
- I remember drinking red kool aid and peeing at the same time. I was expecting it to be red.Anon