church

I used to go to Roman Catholic church services on Sunday mornings with my grandmother. During the echarist (I think?) the priest does his "Take this body..." schpeel and the congregation replies "Thanks Be To God". But my little sound holes heard it wrong, and to this day every time I hear the phrase "Thanks Be To God" I think of what I USED to think they were saying: "Thanks Peter God".

I 100% thought God's name was Peter.

X

During church people would sing "Hosanna in the highest", I thought that Hosanna was Jesus's actual name. It turns out it's just Hebrew for "Help us" or "Save us".

emmily

I used to think that Christian was an ethnicity

Anon

I used to belive as a child that churches were castles of pricesses and that there were castles in different cities,then I understood that they are churches of different cities.

Lizeth Tunala

I used to believe that transubstantiation was just symbolic or a metaphor - it never occured to me that Catholics are supposed to believe it's real

Ina

I used to think Christians were people who liked to eat crisps.

Anon

I used to believe that Muslim women had to be covered up 24/7 and couldn’t even wear t-shirts because that would be considered “immodest”. I mean, how could they go swimming (I know know that they make special swimsuits for that, but I obviously didn’t when I was growing up), or take baths/showers?

Marideth

When I was little I thought the organ at church sounded so scary. I thought they were trying to summon monsters like Frankenstein so I would cry and that's why I stayed in another room as they played the organ

Anon

My jew friend told me god was real , and i believed it

Anon

I used to think juice was called jewish

dumb germ

After drinking the wine, our priest would kneel below the altar as usual. When I was five, I thought that the priest was "disappearing" under the table to spit the wine out because it tastes fuckin' horrible.
I also thought that the wine which is constantly spat everyday would help to deteriorate the church, and that this was the true meaning of christianity.

Christian Jiang

When I was 8 and having my first communion, my mom put a white veil on me and I protested, saying "But this is for marrying. I'm not getting married."
Mom said "You're marrying God." Now I realize she just mean that this would make me closer to god but at the time it sounded awful. I got so upset and started crying saying "I don't wanna marry God." I thought that first communion meant you really actually married God, and you never got to fall in love with anyone else.

A troubled romantic

When I was a little kid I though that the idea of hell was very satisfying, I legitimately wanted to go to hell. Actually, I was so obsessed with Satan and hell that I would draw pictures of hell, and listen to slayer. I look back at my weird self and laugh, but in all actuality, a kid who is a satanist is pretty rad.

Anon

I read a book about different religions. When it talked about Christianity, it said "Baptists are Christians." I had heard that my family was Christian when I mentioned Christmas. I used to believe that the book meant all Christians were Baptists, and that my family and I were also Baptist. We were actually Methodist.

baptist?

I used to think that If I did something bad then God would punish me by making my bang by leg or hurt myself in some way, or not get something that I wanted. I used to hate myself for committing 'sins'.

Matt

When I was around 3 my parents took me to a very loud classical concert and I spent the whole time in a state of terror because I had recently learned the biblical story about Joshua abd the walls falling down and I was sure the hall would collapse and squash us!

Anon

To prevent me from fidgeting while singing Our Father in church, my mom made me believe that I had to cup my hands well so I can receive lots of blessings and after the song, I would put my hands inside my pocket imagining it was full of money.

Jennifer