When I was 10 a friend told me that if you said "devil" and "hell" more often than you said "God" and "heaven", then you would go to Hell (and vice versa). I was really worried so every time I said "hell" or "devil" in whatever context I would say heaven lots of times. When I wasn't doing anything I would often be saying "God god god god" just to even out the score.
A childhood belief about afterlife
others believed things like this
- i thought when you flushed, it went down to hell and that's what the devil fed the people in he..— Barb.
- I used to believe that if you said hell 50 times you went to hell— a big boff
- I used to think that if I told even one little whhite lie, I would go straight to hell.— Debbie
- 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 used to believe that everything you flushed down the toilet ended up in "Hell".— Abi