I surprised my Mam once when I was about 4 by explaining to her in all seriousness:
"When they die, very good people go to Heaven, and very bad people go to Hull."
This only makes sense if you live in the UK, though. ;o)
A childhood belief about afterlife
others believed things like this
- I thought the lines in the sky left behind by airplanes were "sky scrapers". Makes sense.Anon
- i used to believe that stars were people in heaven and the moon was god— Jessica
- I used to think that when people died, their whole bodies were taken up to heaven, not just their spirits.— Karrie
- I used to believe that the streams left behind jets were people going to heaven.— kindofadork
- I used to believe that when people died, they flew to heaven in their coffins.— PikachuGirl123
- i used to believe people were put in coffins because they were special cars that could drive you to heaven!— jym