This isn't really a belief so much as a misunderstanding, really. Anyway, a long time ago, my family was at church on Christmas Eve. We were all holding fake candles with lightbulbs shaped like a candle flame, and the pastor said something like, "Now spread your light throughout the world." My sister looked up at our parents and said, "He's kidding, right? What will we use next year?"
A childhood belief about church

others believed things like this
- i believed that if you farted too much in a room and you were to light a flame your house would blow up— the nuclear fart
- i thought that new disney peter pan song said "spread your legs" but its really "spread your wings"— shasta
- I used to believe that I was the only real person in the world and that everyone else were fake things!— supermk342
- I thought that 1983 went on for 3 years - had to ask my sister who decided how long a year lasted.— Sally
- I was told that for every christmas carol i sang before christmas time santa would give me one less present!— K
- that God lives in the roof of our church and makes electricity to light the chandeliers— M