I thought that if I ever swore, even saying "hell" while reading out a joke, I would go to hell forever. I believed this until I was 10.
A childhood belief about swearing
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you said hell 50 times you went to hell— a big boff
- When I was little I believed Catholics said, Hell Mary's over a Rosary.— Mares
- I thought that if you wore the colour red, you would go yo hell. — Tone
- i thought when you flushed, it went down to hell and that's what the devil fed the people in he..— Barb.
- I thought that "heck" was a less horrible version of hell for people who were only KIND OF evil.— Oizys
- I used to believe that everything you flushed down the toilet ended up in "Hell".— Abi