when i was a kid, i saw a TV special about the US Marines stunt pilot team, the "Blue Angels", who flew F-18 fighter jets.
Because they were called "Blue Angels", i assumed that the fighter jets were, literally, "Angels", like the ones in the Bible. I had seen pictures of traditional angels in Sunday school, but i assumed that they had changed their form over the years and now looked like jets.
When i learned about the Biblical "rapture", i pictured jet fighters growing gangly cartoonish arms and swooping down from the sky to grab Christians and wisk them away to heaven.
A childhood belief about characters
others believed things like this
- that when it thunder'd it was angels rolling barrels around heaven.— daniel copeland calif,u.s.
- I used to believe that the streams left behind jets were people going to heaven.— kindofadork
- My older sister used to beleive that when it rained, the angels in heaven were having a spitting contest— Doblica W.
- I used to believe that angels painted the sky.— Jessica
- My grandmother used to tell me that thunder was the angels bowling.— laf
- That the "glitter" in crispy snow was angels— HH