religion

i have a slight hearing problem and in church i made a few mistakes. instead of singing "up from the grave he arose" i would sing "up from the gravy rose." i never wuite understood it. the same with "deliver us from evil" which i believed to be "deliver us from weasels." at weddinds i thought "holy matrimony" was "holy macaroni". i thought macaroni was some secret part of a wedding ceremony we weren't allowed to see.

I used to believe…

Two beliefs of my little brother-

Before he was old enough to understand religion, for awhile when going to church, he believed the priest WAS God.

My dad met Coronel Sanders in a plane once, and when I told my brother that the Coronel gave my dad an autograph, my brother said "Oh, I thought he gave dad a piece of chicken."

I thought that the animals went in two by two for company. I thought Noah was concerned about them getting lonely so invited two of each kind along. It was only recently at the age of 25 that someone pointed out to me the real reason.

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When I was about 6 or 7 and in a Lutheran Vacation Bible School class, I used to think that if we talked about how bad Satan was, he would be waiting at the door outside the church when we left, and would grab us all and take us to hell. This left my mind when I turned 10 and realized how boring the town I lived in was, so I thought I'd already lived and died and went to hell. I was not raised in a religious home, and it shows. To this day, I still refer to my home town as Hell even though I'm a devoted Methodist believer.

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When I was little, I used to believe that whatever you were buried in or with after you died, is what you'd have in heaven. So when my grandfather died when I was 6, I started spouting off all this stuff we had to put in his casket, so he'd have it in heaven. The only good thing about this belief was that every time someone in my family died, I was sure to chear everyone up. It wasn't until I was 9 and my great grandmother died, that I realized you couldn't take anything with you to heaven.

I currently live around the corner from a church with a very large cross in the front of it. When I was much younger, my brother, Travis, thought that it was a shrine welcoming him home from wherever he was, so until he was about four years old, the only way he knew how to get to our house was "Turn right at the house with the big T

I used to think the nuns were called numbs, and I still don't know why!

I used to believe…

When I was little, my friends and I thought clouds were make out of marshmellow, so we would throw sticks in the sky to see if they would hit the clouds so we could eat some. Once, my friend threw a stick up and it didn't come down. From then on we thought "God" was angry at us because we were throwing sticks at "him".

I once asked my older sister what a nun was (we're not Catholic), and she told me that it was a half man half woman. Needless to say, watching the movie "Sister Act" with Whoopi Goldberg was quite traumatic for me.

I used to believe…

At my church, about halfway through the mass, everyone will shake hands and say "peace be with you." If you say it real fast, it comes out garbled. For some reason, for years I had this bizarre thought that people were asking what the other person had for breakfast, and the other person almost always responded with Rice Krispies. It was beyond me what cereal had to do with God, but my family still teases me about that to this day.

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When I was younger I used to go to mass that was said in irish. "In the name of the Father, and the Son and the Holy Spirit" was "In ainm an Athar agus an Mac agus an Spioraid Naomh" 'Mac' was pronouned like 'Vic' and 'Naomh' is pronounced 'neeve'. My best friend was called Niamh and so when we said this, I thought I was saying a prayer to 2 people called Vick and Niamh. Surprisingly, I am now fluent in irish.

I used to believe that the little marks on our curch floor (like scuff marks) came from the cross Jesus was crucified on. I don't know how, but I think I thought maybe it scraped against the floor as he was carrying it or something. A bit weird considering I don't live in Israel.

I'm Catholic and when my friends and I were about 7, just before we made our First Communion, we would practice with Jacobs cream crackers which is weird cos they look nothing like Communion wafers!

I used to believe…

Remember the Chao from Sonic Adventure? I used to think that your soul looked like these Chao, and when you died you would go to a place that looked kinda like Mystic Ruins! I used to play a lot of Sonic Adventure ^_^

I used to believe…

When I was little I used to think that if I didn't do the sign of the cross before praying God would not listen to me, so when I would forget to do it I would start praying all over again even if I was almost finished.

I used to believe…

before i learned about any other religion, i thought that when someone dies,jesus flies down from a cloud and pulls them up to heaven.then i found out about other religions and people going to the underworld.