I used to believe that God was a switchboard operator complete with little headset since that was the only way I thought he could answer all the prayers. I pictured him sitting up there saying "all circuits busy, please hold" to everyone who was praying. I must have had a special line because I was never put on hold!
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I used to beleive that pockets of air trapped under the ice of puddles were little bits of god, which I had to release by breaking the ice.
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I used to believe that God was angry with my mom when her laundry got rained on. (I was only 3 or 4).
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For a long time I thought that God was actually giving mass. I was shocked when one day we sat in the first row and discovered that in fact a human priest had been speaking the whole time. I finally understood how people could doubt the existence of god... until then I just thought they needed to go to church to hear him.
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Dammit i thought it was 'dance seetee' too. used to picture jesus jumping on my old grey sofa.
glad to no im not alone
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When i was younger i would go to church with my grandpa, well they always too offerings and said it was for God. So i thought that after Church each Sunday the Pastor would stand there holding the bowl up and the money would fly up to Heaven
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At my first confession when I was 7, I couldn't think of anything to confess. So I made up some sins and lied to the priest.
That may well have been the first actual sin I've ever committed.
I used to believe that if u were surrounded by loud noises and couldnt hear then satin would sneek up behind you kill you or something, so i would never vacume in fear that it would be the last thing i do...i still wont vacume
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Regarding the belief about the misheard lyric of the sung "Amen" in an Easter Mass, it reminded me of something more appropriate. I'm a BIG fan of the <i>Mass of Creation</i> (by Marty Haugen) setting, people. If the organ (I mean a BIG, ritzy pipe organ) blasts out that section of this Mass setting that follows after "Christ has died, Christ is risen..." part, you might be thinking (if you're scared of it):
<b>O-OR-GAN, O-OR-GAN, O-O-O-ORGAN!</b>
(I drew out the vowel to emphasize how the "Amen" part of the <i>Mass of Creation</i> goes.)
I used to believe that the words (in the christmas carol, "It came upon a midnight clear")
"With angels bending near the earth to touch their harps of gold"
were actually
"With angels spending near the earth to touch their hearts of gold."
Curiously I never wondered why angels should have golden hearts, but I always wondered what the angels were spending their money on.
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For no explainable reason, I used to think that everyone's soul looked like a small child dressed in Victorian clothing. Maybe a wee too much Oliver as a kid?
i used to believe when i was 10 that god is a one who always punishes those who are not obeying their parents and i was so immersed in what is god...
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When I attended church we always sang the song...
"I've got the bible enthusiam all over me".
BUt when I sang it as a child,
I sang it this way ,
"I've got the bible school and susie has them all over her.
My folks laughed so hard when they heard me at home singing this song.
I've been to a lot of Catholic parishes and when I sang this traditional hymn, <i>Forty Days and Forty Nights<i>, I long ago thought the first line went "Forty plays and forty fights..." As a Catholic, I wouldn't do that in church!
I believed that if you said Satan's name at night, he would come to get you - via the front door. It didn't help that right after I told my mother about my belief (and night, yet), there was a knock on the door! I was terrified and begged her not to answer it.
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until recently, the leader of the archdioces of the Boston Catholic church was Cardinal Bernard Law.
When the whole church molestation scandal started (only a few years ago), I started hearing the phrase "Cardinal Law" in the news a lot. I assumed it was the laws that cardinals, priests, etc. had to follow, and that molesting little boys was against that law. It didn't occur to me that is was somebody's name until I saw him being interviewed on TV!
I used to believe that if you dug in the ground deep enough that eventually you would find the door to hell.
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In my pre-school years, I believed I was in a story book that God was looking at. A new day would dawn when the He turned the page.
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You know that one man's voice on radio ad's and movie previews? When I was little, I thought that was the Voice of God, running the whole show.
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my uncle and my aunt were my godparents but they never talked to me about God. so when Mom was annoyed and said God I always pictured a fried egg! don't know why