I grew up in a pretty strict Lutheran church, and I sincerely believed that if I took communion when I was in any way spiritually unprepared, that I would be immediately shot straight through the floor down into hell to burn for all eternity. Right there, on the spot. No second chances. Only a pile of clothes and shoes would remain.
The fact that I had never observed this phenomenon didn't diminish my conviction that it was guaranteed to happen to me.
I never signed up for confirmation/first communion because I figured I wasn't stupid enough to play Russian Roulette with my immortal soul.
I still hold my breath at other people's kids' First Communions.
A childhood belief about church
others believed things like this
- If you hold your breath and make a wish under a highway tunnel it will come true....I still hold my breath :)— aj
- I still hold my breath when I pass by cemetaries because it is impolite to breathe when other people can't.— Crystal
- that....I do not grow old (in size)...rather my clothes and shoes shrink..— mayank
- i thought that you had like a box or something inside you to hold your soul for the longest time— jill
- when i was a little kid. i used to think that when u hold ur breath ur heart stops.. LOL :P — Annonymus
- I used to think that if I told even one little whhite lie, I would go straight to hell.— Debbie