When I very briefly went to Sunday school at the age of about six or seven, they used to have a collection plate passed around. I asked what the money was for.
"Well, it might be for..." Mum thought about it. "It might be for mending the church roof."
I didn't say any more about it, but I was convinced that I knew now what was going on. After the service, the organist would melt down the pennies with the steam from the organ pipes (!) and cover the leaks in the roof with the hot metal. Even though I know better now, it's still a persistent image.
A childhood belief about church
others believed things like this
- I thought you were supposed to take money out of the collection at church.— Wangchuk
- I use to think church was spelt turch because of the big T on the roof.Anon
- that God lives in the roof of our church and makes electricity to light the chandeliers— M
- that the money I gave at sunday school would go straight to God.— christine
- When I was about 4 or 5, I used to believe that instead of bones, we had metal pipes. — TL
- I used to believe that a topless bar was like a bar which has no roof on it.Anon