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When I was little, I used to believe the moon was God's desk chair, where he sat and watched us. I wouldn't pray when the moon was full, because that was the back of the swivel chair, meaning he was facing the other way and wouldn't hear me. When there was no moon, I was always afraid God had moved.

Colleen

I used to believe that if you picked up the phone and dialed 999-9999, you would reach Satan. I think I heard this from my brother, joking at some point. When I finally got the nerve to try calling, it didn't connect to anyone, so I assumed God had cut off his phone.

Anon

I used to think that Joseph, Mary's husband, was God. He played the father role in Jesus' life and when I would hear that God was Jesus' father I just assumed they meant Joseph. I remember hearing in church that no one knew what God looked like, and I came across a picture of the Holy Family and wondered if anyone realized there was a picture of God!

Kathy

I used to believe that God was holding earth and that he might drop it. I though so becuase of the song "He has got the whole world, in his hands!" I also tried to hold up the world by pulling on the grass.

Anon

When I was little, I called the Pope "the dude with the godly hat".

Jessica Tinch

Me and my sister were small back then and were troublesome. My grandma threatened us that if we kept acting like this, a demon from hell will rise up from the ground and snatch us to take us to hell where the "bad behavior" originated. In order to send back the demon, we had to ask for forgiveness. It really worked for me, but I was scared for the longest time everytime I did something wrong........

Anon

When I got my ears pierced I had crosses and believed the devil would come and take them when I slept...I got my ears caught in may blankets!!

Christine

When I was very little, I asked my mom "Mom? Where do angels go when theres no clouds for them to sit on?" and she looked down at me and said "Why, they sit on your shoulders of course!" I believed her for the longest time...and still do.

Beckles

when i was little i had all these beliefs about god such as: when it was raining, god was crying and so forth. The best one i came up with when i was little was that when it was foggy outside god was smoking. It made perfect sense to me at the time because both of my parents smoke

kyra

When I was a wee little girl, I believed that heaven was in the clouds (probably from TV). I also believed that God looked like the Lucky Charms man (again TV -there must have been some commercial where he was standing on a cloud or something).

Anyway, as I reached grade school age, I would always get perplexed by the Scripture about having a "faith like a child". I thought, 'What's so great about a faith like a child's? Just a couple of years ago I thought God looked like the Lucky Charms man, and you people are looking to US for solid faith??!!'

(It wasn't until last year that I figured it out... it's not about "head knowledge"; it's about a heart that trusts God's goodness)

one confused girl

When I was about 5 years old I believed that all of the smoke from all of the fires, chemical plants, cigarettes, etc. of the world drifted up into the sky and "became Jesus". I thought that he was like a huge cloud that floated around and just got bigger and bigger.

Dana

I had a very religous grandmother who always told me Jesus was my friend. When I was a bout 3 I got upset when my mother put her hand in the water at the end of the bath as 'Jesus, the dirty little devil' was down there. I had turned him into one of my imaginary friends. My grandmother was horrified but did lay of the 'Jesus is your friend" story for a few years

Anon

I use to believe that when if=t was raining god was crying

Katy