All of my family is Baptist. As a child, any time my mother would decide to not do anything again, she would tell me that she was "giving it up for lent". It wasn't until I was 9 and met a Catholic that I realized that she wasn't referring to a trade with dryer fluff.
A childhood belief about church

others believed things like this
- I grew up Jewish. Until I was about 10, I believed that everyone who wasn't Jewish was Catholic.— Philm35
- My sister just recently realized that the lyric "more than a woman" wasn't 4 letter woman!— Anne
- For the longest time I didn't know that Spinal Tap wasn't a real group. No wonder I couldn't find their music.— Louis
- i used to believe that boggies are parts of fluff that fly in to your nose— natasha hawthorne
- My mother, the good Catholic, thought that Jesus, being a string bean (supreme being) was really skinny.— Mark D
- I used to think I smelled wrong, but I figured out it was because we never used dryer sheets. — blnkfrnk