I used to ask my mother how God could hear everybody's prayers, since we were all praying at the same time. She said, "Oh, God is everywhere." That was when I started thinking of God as being grossly obese.
A childhood belief about characters

others believed things like this
- At night I would hear the chirping crickets and thinking it was comeing from the stars in the sky!— delana
- I used to believe that when I said my prayers, "God Bless..." meant please keep burglars awayAnon
- I used to think that the praying mantis was related to the katydid!Anon
- As a child I thought that if you killed a praying mantis, you had to pay God $50.00.— stevie p
- When I was a kid I thought praying mantises were made out of grass— Landon
- The first time I hear about a serial killer, I laughed. You can't kill cereal. It's not alive.Anon