When I was young, I always attend church services. When one pastor would talk about what hell looks like, I thought that he said a bad word in front of the audiences. My father corrected me at age 8 that 'hell' was not meant to be use as a swear word, hell is a place of eternal punishment for the wicked.
A childhood belief about church

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you said hell 50 times you went to hell— a big boff
- I was sad for many years because my aunt once told me I would go to hell for farting in church!— Tara
- I thought that if you wore the colour red, you would go yo hell. — Tone
- i thought when you flushed, it went down to hell and that's what the devil fed the people in he..— Barb.
- I thought that "heck" was a less horrible version of hell for people who were only KIND OF evil.— Oizys
- I used to believe that everything you flushed down the toilet ended up in "Hell".— Abi