My mom always told me that everyone was Catholic; the big Protestant church next to ours was where the wealthy Catholics worshipped, etc. I overheard her tell my dad one day that a neighbor was dating a Jew. I was estatic! I thought this girl had discovered this lone iconoclast in some foreign land (most likely a shephard) who was the Bartleby of organized religion. I lingered around the girl's house for weeks, waiting for the guy in a robe and sandals to show up, but the only boy that came to see her was this regular hippy kid. I resented him, because I thought he was trying to get between her and the Jewish guy I longed to meet.
A childhood belief about church
others believed things like this
- I used to believe the local Catholic church was Disney Land.— Sherri
- I grew up Jewish. Until I was about 10, I believed that everyone who wasn't Jewish was Catholic.— Philm35
- i used to think that being a prostitute was a religion. (sort of like protestant i guess?)Anon
- That you start out Catholic and after you reach a certain age you then become Protestant.Anon
- I was a little Catholic girl, and I used to believe that deviled ham was chopped up devils.— Camille, Palo Alto, CA
- Since Germans speak German, I thought Jewish people spoke Jewish.— Lori