I used to believe it was the father, the SUN, and the holy spirit. I had no idea why we'd be praying to the sun since it was just...well I didn't exactly know what the sun was then either but I knew it had nothing to do with Catholicism...I was very confused for a while . . . up into the 7th grade actually . . . I'm slow, I admit it . . .
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I used to believe until about the age of of 9 or so that the angels were actually singing in church. I was SO disappointed when I turned around one day and saw the choir! To tell the truth, I am still disappointed to this day!
I used to believe that I had a certain amount of luck to last for my whole life, so I used to pray to the spirits to make small unlucky things that I didn't really care about too much happen - so I could save my luck for when I really needed it.
I used to pray everynight before I went to bed, and I had 2 nearly OCD-like things I needed to do in my prayers. First, I had to ask God to bless a very specific list of people I knew in a specific order.
Secondly, I believed that prayer was a direct conversation with God himself, so I was very careful to let him know that my prayer was over, often for several minutes after saying "Amen." I thought that if I didn't do this and accidentally said a bad word or did something bad, God would know immediately, and would be angry with me.
Hmm... may be why I'm a lapsed-Christian today...
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I used to believe that Mary Poppin was God's wife. Her name was Mary, after all, and who else could sit on a cloud and fly with a parasol?
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At my old church we sang alot of hyms.. and there was one that said "and now, let the weak say i am strong, let the poor say i am rich because of what the Lord has done"..
But seeing as i couldn't read thien and had to learn the songs by ear, i sang the lyrics as "and now, let teh wheet say i am strong, let the corn say i am rich".. i new that in the old days they ran farms alot but i never got why the farmer's crops talked to them..
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when I was younger, I thought that only the good girls could become nones and I was always wondering what wrong did my mother in order not to be a none.....
I used to believe that there are angels anywhere. They were looking after the people and mentioning them wehre to go. The angels also smiled to the peole who were happy and they sit kalm together with the ones who were mourning. It made me very happy to know thatr they were there. And to be honest I did not lost this belive completely.
I used to believe that when in a mess, in church, not to follow correctly the orders of the priest in order to stand up, to sit, to kneel down..., that people followed carefully, was a serious sin.
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My husband used to think there was a gospel song called, "Bringing in the sheep" or "Bringing in the sheets". I set him straight after I stopped laughing.
I used to belive that bible's ate brains.
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I was told that if your ever swore in church, as you walked out God would strike you with a bolt of lightning.
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When I was very little I thought that god was a really tall skinny guy with long hair and a beard. I visualised him running long-legged through the city with tall buildings in each hand placing them in empty lots, because I had been told that god created everything and put everything in its place.
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Early literacy can be a mixed blessing - being able to read I missed out on the dancing furniture, the unbuilt arks and even the happy salad (Lettuce with a gladsome mind), but I read and re-read the verse of "Just for Today" which goes "Let me no wrong or idle word unthinking say (that bit was fine), set thou a seal upon my lips, just for today". Okay, God can do everything, so the general idea wasn't too much of a problem - it was the details ... like, would the seal be balancing a beach ball on its nose? How big would it be? Would I be able to breathe? ...
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The hymn "Gentle Jesus meek and mild" contains the line - "Pity my simplicity". For years I thought this was "Pity mice in Plicity" and wondered where this awful place called Plicity was where mice were so persecuted.
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When I was little we had neighbours who had three children - Eva, Lila and Jackie. When I was reciting the Lord's prayer at bedtime I always asked God to deliver us from Eva, Lila and Jackie
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I used to believe that Mother Nature was The wife of God. She was the mommy and he was the daddy.
I used to believe that God looked like Abraham Lincoln, only made out of clouds, and he would sit at a big cloud desk and do business type things...angels on different clouds would call him on his cloud phone and prayers were recorded on his cloud answering machine...
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When I was young, I believed that God had written the Bible. I couldn't read at the time, so I thought that the Bible had the answer to every qestion in the world. Absolutely every one. Needless to say, I was horribly dissappointed when I learned how to read. It seemed to be entirely compromised of Somebody, who begat Someone Else, who begat Yet Another Someone....
I wasn't helped by attending the funeral of a wealthy man who had chosen "Guide me, O thou great Redeemer." The order of service contained a misprint (accidental or otherwise) which replaced "Land me safe on Canaan's side" with "Land my safe on Canaan's side."