church

Before I was able to read well I thought pedestrian crossing signs said presbatarian crossing.

Zele

In the consecration during the catholic mass, the priest held up a host to the sound of bells, in front of a gold-plated tabernacle. A short time later, He would hold up a golden cup, again to the sound of bells. later, hosts were distributed to those taking communion from what appeared to be the same cup. I was convinced that God would "count the house" and take parts of the original host, transfer them into the cup so everyone who wanted to could get a host at communion. The bells were the sound of the transfer.

Debbie

Someone told me a story once about a bad guy who broke into a Catholic church and stole the eucharist (white circular bread thing). Supposedly the eucharist started bleeding all over the altar. I believed the whole story.

Anon

When I was about 5 a friend asked me if I was a Catholic or a Protestant. I thought a Catholic was someone who went to church and a Protestant was someone who didn't, so I said My Mom's a Catholic, but my Dad and I are Protestants. Actually, as I later found out, my Mom is a Protestant, but my dad is an Atheist who was raised Catholic!

Al Bradford

When I was in about 5th grade, I read a book in which one of the characters goes to confession. Since I'm not Catholic, I had no idea what that was, and assumed it was something I'd be expected to do when I was older. Well, at least my parents made sure I was clear on all the fundamentals!

slightly sheltered Baptist

I used to believe that I was Christian, even though I'm Jewish and I went to a Jewish day school and I speak Hebrew.

Madi

i used to be scared of churches because i had dreams of being trapped in one, and i thought that people a part of the church would come out and take you away if you didint come every sunday.

Anon

when i was little i used to think that you couldn't swear in the name of god until you had made your first communion, you could only swear in the name of the bible. And after i had mine, i sore in god's name all the time :P

gt

I am an Anglican/Episcopalian. When I was little, I thought a lady could not be a priest. I never did see a lady minister until I was in high school, and then again, she was of another faith. When I was in college, the Episcopal church had a lady priest. I was so surprised! I still find it difficult to believe that a lady can be a priest.

Hilary the baker

i used to believe that if you had the panphlet at the start at mass whaen the mass was near the end then the priest would start again

Anon

I use to believe that whatever a burried in the dirt that God would take it to Heaven..and I always went back to the spot to see if it was gone. Ofcourse..it never was. But I'd lie and tell my friends it was anyway.. :P

Heather A. Miller

I never used to understand why people at church would talk about saving sinners, and being saved, because, for some reason, I was under the impression that people were bad because they wanted to go to hell, so they could do all the evil things they wanted. I didn't understand that there were other factors. That's probably why the whole "lead me not into temptation" thing didn't sense to. I thought people were evil because they liked to be evil

Rae

There's a verse of scripture that says "Consider the lilies of the field. They sow not, neither do they spin". I always visualised these brightly colored daisy-like flowers spinning around like fans. I did not understand that verse at all...

LP

when i was little i used to think my pastor was some superholy like servant of God, which i guess they are in a way, a servant of God that is. but i though they were like all powerful like God, and lived at the church, and i was kinda scared of them until my family went to his house one time and i realized they're just normal people like the rest of us

lizziemarie

When my brother was in first grade, he was getting ready to attend his first CCD class. My mom wanted to make sure he knew some basics before he left so she asked him if he knew how to do the sign of the cross. He then put his two fingers up in a cross shape!!!

more religious than him

"Thanks be to God" in the liturgy, became "Thanks Peter God". Made sense.

Anon

I used to think god is a mosque. my friends always told me god is the biggest and mosques were the biggest buildings at my little town.

cem

I'm jewish and when i was younger my dad tried to convince me doing the bar mitzvah telling that only oblied kids would not do it. For some time i pictured evil priests attacking little childs and taking to churches until my father said it was not like that and asked sorry for confusing my little mind.

kaiser the not so brave

maybe I needed my ears checked, but when I was little I used to hear people say Jesus and thought they were saying "deedra"

joenkobema

One of the churches I attended as a boy had a large mirror on the ceiling above where the pastor would preach and sermonize the congregation. I thought the reflection was God watching and giving instructions to the pastor, it really put the fear of God in me because he had one of those "fire and brimstone" styles of preaching. To this day I hate the "fire and brimstone" style of preaching and if I hear it on the radio or the TV I immediately turn it off.

Lee Roi