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I used to believe…
When I was a kid, because God lived in Heaven, I thougth all the places in the Bible were in Heaven too, imagine my astonishment when watching the TV one day and there was film footage from Bethlehem, I was stunned and couldn't figure out how they'd gotten the cameras into Heaven, much less why everyone in Heaven [actually the good people of Bethlehem] were wearing regular clothes like "real" people ...
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When I was in 5th grade our teacher went around the room asking us our religious beliefs. Well, I was the only one in my class who wasn't catholic and when it came my turn I told her "I'm Prostitute" and when she looked at me in disbelief I continued by saying "It's true, ask my mom, she's one too!"
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When my sister was very little, before she could see over the pew in church, she thought that it was actually God speaking during the mass...
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When I was little, I asked my mom what God was. "He's a being," my mom said. I thought she said, "He's a bean." So for years I pictured this little bean sitting up there on the clouds, looking down on his creation.
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i used to say 'our father, who art in heaven, hello whats your name?'
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When I was a child, my friend told me that God can change me from a girl to a boy. I resented God for this and to this day I have rejected any belief in Christianity.
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When i eas little, when i went to church, the preacher always said that it was God's house, and i thought that it literally was his house and that he lived in the steeple.
I grew up catholic in Scotland in the 60's and I used to think that children couldn't sin. I was forever naughty, but safe and happy in the belief that all children were free from sin and therefore I could keep being naughty until I was an adult. What I now know is that naughty little girls grow up to be VERY NAUGHTY big girls...
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"Blessed art thou a mouse swimming and blessed is the Fruit of the Loom
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When I was about 3 years old, my mom notices that when I was saying the "Hail Mary" I would say "...and pray for us cinders" instead of "...pray for us sinners". She thought it was pretty funny, and didn't correct me till I was older.
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There was a certain drinking fountain at my church that I always drank out of from the time I was a toddler. There was a plaque mounted on the wall next to this drinking fountain that had the Bible verse that said "Whoever drinks this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst again."
I remember when I learned to read, I read that plaque and I thought that the reason I ever got thirsty was BECAUSE I had drank from that drinking fountain. I remember thinking that it was too bad I drank from it before I learned to read-- if I hadn't, I would never get thirsty ever again!
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Up until I was about 10, I had this strange image of God. He was about 60, wearing a white robe with a rope belt, and had a cane; but the strange part was he looked exactly like Mr. Rogers.
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When I was about four or five, there was a swing at my pre-school that had a small root sticking out from the dirt under it. It had three prongs, and did look a little like a hand. We all thought it was the devil's hand sticking up out of H-E-double hockey sticks.
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From my father: the prayer goes like this>> "To thee do we cry poor banished children of Eve." His version as a child was "to thee do we cry poor bandaged children of Eve."
From my brother: the Act of Contrition goes "O my God, I am heartily sorry". His version as he prepared for First Penance was "O my God I am partly sorry"!
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When I first started school I thought that Jesus was a tortoise. Because every morning before the Lords Prayer, the Headmistress would ask us to say the "Prayer that Jesus taught us".
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I used to believe…
That God was always watching you, and if you were naughty he would kill you
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When I was young I was told that Jesus was 'the light of the world', so I thought that before Jesus was born there was no sun and it was always dark so everyone had to walk around with candles.
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Instead of harvesting, I thought the people in the hymn were herding sheep. "Bringing in the Sheep..."
I used to believe that when i said my prayers at night, if I forgot anyones name, even their pets names,when asking God to bless them, something bad would happen to them.
I used to believe (and still do, to an extent) That when looking at the clouds, you could see the faces of angel's watching over you.
