It's wonderfully comforting to find out I wasn't the only kid wondering who the heck these strange people were who kept cropping up in our prayers. In my Lutheran church we usually said the Apostle's creed during Sunday service. But on special Sundays we said the Nicene Creed. One line says "[he] ascended into heaven and sitteth on the right hand of the Father; from thence he shall come again in glory to judge both the quick and the dead." But as a kid, I always thought the second part of that was "and Nancy shall come again in glory to judge both the quick and the dead", and I just couldn't figure out who Nancy was, or why she was so special that she was not only coming in glory but getting to do the judging as well!
A childhood belief about prayers
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the rays of sun coming through clouds were how God led newly dead souls into heaven.— Jenni
- I used to believe that Michael Jackson and Nancy Kerrigan were the same person. No idea why.— Diana
- when i was younger i thought that areoplanes drove dead people to heavenAnon
- i used to believe people were put in coffins because they were special cars that could drive you to heaven!— jym
- when there is a spot where the sun only shines between 2 clowds god was takeing dead people up to heaven.— manda
- I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon