When I was in 3rd grade, this rather unpleasant girl in my class told me that once in a while, when an evil person died and was supposed to go to hell, their spirit went to heaven by mistake. Good spirits sometimes ended up in hell as well and the devil would not send you back. I was traumatized, because my dog had recently died and I was panic-stricken with the thought that he might be in hell. Thank God I confided this to my mother as soon as I did, who quickly reassured me by saying hell and the devil don't even exist and that evil people just sleep when they die. Six years later, I still really dislike that girl for what she did to me.
A childhood belief about afterlife
others believed things like this
- i thought when you flushed, it went down to hell and that's what the devil fed the people in he..— Barb.
- I thought that "heck" was a less horrible version of hell for people who were only KIND OF evil.— Oizys
- I used to believe that if you said hell 50 times you went to hell— a big boff
- I used to believe that everything you flushed down the toilet ended up in "Hell".— Abi
- I was sad for many years because my aunt once told me I would go to hell for farting in church!— Tara
- I used to think that if I told even one little whhite lie, I would go straight to hell.— Debbie