When I was a child attending Catholic church my Mom would tell my sister an I not to let the communion host touch our teeth. It was Jesus's body and if we bit it we would be biting Jesus and He had already suffered enough when he was hung on the cross.
A childhood belief about church

others believed things like this
- When I was little I though "A Cross" was a mud/tar pit and that Jesus drowned.— Usagi Ohkami
- I used to think God and Jesus were the same person. And I grew up Catholic.— Jackie Mullinix/st louis
- My mother, the good Catholic, thought that Jesus, being a string bean (supreme being) was really skinny.— Mark D
- I used to believe that Jesus lived in the tower of the churchAnon
- Iused to believe the statue of Jesus was really him and our church got mad at him and nailed him up there.— The Fidiot
- I used to think that the priest at church was JESUS.
He had a beard.... it made sense— Joe B