For 2 years we thought my now 7-year-old niece was afraid rp be baptized because she'd been told a priest would pour water on her head. Today we learned the real reason. She thought that being baptized meant you died. My father-in-law told her being baptized meant you got to go to heaven- she thought he meant immediately.
A childhood belief about church
others believed things like this
- for years i was afraid to throw up because i thought it meant i was possessed like in the exorcist.Anon
- I used to believe that "Our Father, who art in heaven" meant that God was also a painter on the side. — Amanda
- I thought that hydrogen was pure water (since I knew hydro- meant water) and H2O was impure some how— Hexetic
- I asked my father what holy water was. He told me it was the priest's bathwater. — Gwen
- When I used to see a sign saying "Littering Fine" I thought they meant if you littered REAL GOOD!— Lou V.
- Someone told me People and fish went to the same place.I thought they meant humans get flushed— MrK