My mother always told me that you had to be married to have children. So I just assumed that God and Mary were divorced; she had just left him for Joseph.
A childhood belief about characters
others believed things like this
- I thought "Virgin Mary" was actually "Verge 'n Mary" and that Verge was a nickname for Joseph. — Rachel
- I used to think Joseph of Joseph and his amazing techni-coloured dreamcoat was Jesus' dad. Anon
- i used to believe nuns were married to jesus and priests were married to mary.— sunshine
- I believed that Jesus Christ was the son of the Christ family, i.e., Mary and Joseph Christ.— David Araújo
- I thought that the star that Mary and Joseph followed was called Yonder, as in 'following Yonder star."— Kairow
- I thought that Ted Bundy was a character on "Married With Children."— Patrick