religion

I used to believe Jesus looked like The statue of Lincoln. I was 3 or 4 when my family went to DC. The statue of Lincoln was the biggest person I had ever seen and it reminded me of the bible story of children sitting at Jesus' feet. I had that picture in my head for years.

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For Christmas our tree topper has always been an Angel. A BLONDE angel. I had become completely convinced at age 7 that i could never become an Angel because I was born a brunette and that only blondes could go to heaven, the next year my grandma made her own Angel tree topper...... with BROWN hair thats been used ever since.

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When my grandfater died when I was six, my mu said that we could go and visit him one day. It wasnt til i was about ten taht I reaslised I'd have to *gasp* DIE to visit him.

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When I was young I knew Santa and the Easter Bunny and all those cool guys were always watching me, and that they always knew if i was naughty or nice or whatever. God was another story. For some reason when I was around 3 or 4 I got this idea in my head that God couldn't see me if I hid under the coveres. My mom would tuck me in and I would not be tired, so after she left I would hide under the covers all sneaky, and not sleep! I would just keep my eyes open as long as I wanted.

Man I was bad..

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My cousin and me used to believe that if we dug a hole deep enough in the ground, we would reach the devil and be able to kill him. We came up with this big plan to do just that and we figured everybody would give us money to reward us for killing the devil. I think we dug about 2 feet then gave up.

I was told by my teacher that when a person gives charity, god will reward him with double of what he has given.

When I was in the synagouge my father gave charity and took back change, I tought he had taken back double of what he has given.

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When I was little, I had the theory that if you dive down head first into the groud you would get transported to a firey place and you could do anything you wanted. All of my freinds I ever known would be there and the pain I felt in the real world would all be gone and everything would be good. I don't know where I got thats from. I acully thought about trying that a few times to! Luckily I didnt though

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My next door neighbor had to go to something called CCD and I didn't know what it was. I asked her, and she just said it was for church. For a while, I thought it meant they were looking for christian music- Seeing CD's, CCD, right? haha.

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when i was a kid i heard about "communion" when i went to catholic scripture class at school once. the teacher explained that the idea was that people ate the flesh of christ and drank the blood of christ. she also told us that god was really really really big AND that god and jesus christ were just different versions of the same thing. so.... i put all this information together and believed that at communion people were REALLY eating a little piece of christ's body, and that christ was a reallly really really big person, and that every church kept a slab of christ which they would carve little bits off to feed to people every sunday. i was quite disgusted by this for many years.

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From a young age, we had a hired Nanny who was lovely woman but a devout Catholic and being brought up Catholic myself my parents didn't mind her using God's power as tool against me. One day, after hitting my brother for no apparent reason my nanny said I shouldn't do things like that as God was watching me and would be very dissapointed.

For weeks afterwards I would refuse until forced to take a shower, undress or use the bathroom. Upon being asked why I was being so difficult I replied. "Because God is watching me, he should mind his own business and give me some privacy!"

i used to believe that if i prayed every day for wings, i would get wings. i was told that god would give me anything i prayed for. so i prayed for wings. and every day would check the mirror and thought that the bones in my back were the beginning stubs of my growing wings.


... they never grew....

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When I was little I was told about God.
I was just told that he was a big man up in the sky who created everything.
I was a big Bananas in Pajamas fan then, so I pictured a huge B1 staring down from the sky....

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My friend use to be terrified that on judgement day all humans would stand in an alphebetical line to meet with God. Since her last name is Harris, she would have to stand in line next to the evil king Herrod from the bible. She still gets nervous when people talk about the end of the world!

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When I was small and the priest would read out the intentions for masses for the coming week, I used to think that the people he was talking about were so huge (people of giant spider proportions!) that they had to have the whole church to themselves!

I used to believe that everyone whose name was biblical would inevitably play out the life story of his or her namesake. Since my name is Sarah, I was convinced that I would marry a man named Abraham and have a son named Isaac. I was very upset that my parents named me after someone who had laughed at God, so around age 5 I apologized to God in advance. Also, my sister Amie was born that year, and I envied her for not being doomed to the fate of any biblical character.

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my parents told me when i was a kid that if dance on "Good Friday" my legs will dry out. I use to believe that until i was 12. after dansing in my living room when no one was waching me and i was fine the next morning..
i was also told that every time there was thunder, ST. PETER was moving the furniture in heaven

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My mom always told me "God watches you everywhere you go." I'd always answer "No, not in the bathroom because there are no windows in there." So, for years I had thought God was looking in my window every night, watching my every move with a creepy smile on his face. Sort of like a stalker.