When I was little and we'd go to mass, I would think that the confesssionals (we were Catholic) were the gateways to hell, and that if you were really bad, the priest would open another door on the other side, and you'd be in hell.
A childhood belief about church

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you said hell 50 times you went to hell— a big boff
- I am Catholic. I used to believe that the Father presenting the Mass was in fact God himself.— Lindsey
- I thought that if you wore the colour red, you would go yo hell. — Tone
- I used to believe that everything you flushed down the toilet ended up in "Hell".— Abi
- I used to think that if I told even one little whhite lie, I would go straight to hell.— Debbie
- When I was little I believed Catholics said, Hell Mary's over a Rosary.— Mares