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I used to believe that i was God's daughter. And i was really offended when people said God only had a son. Opps!

Cara

when i was little i believed that the job as the pope was passed on to his first born son... like in the royal family... until i found out that popes didn't have kids

peni

My brother once told me(I was... 5) that angels threw rocks at you if you were bad. He threw rocks at me for the next two years

Randy

I used to beileve that satan lived inside the earth,so I banged the ground a lot on sundays

atomicadam

God looked like J.R.R. Tolkien on the back of my father's Lord of the Rings books. He even appeared to me in a dream as a moving chalk portrait, so I knew it must be true!

Walter

When I was little my brother told me that when you rub your hand across the carpet real fast, the heat you feel is the devil trying to come up and get you.

Amanda

When my sister was really little, she asked her teacher where God lived, and her teacher told her that God was in everything. So on the way home she opened the first thing she came across to catch a glimpse of God (it happened to be a dandelion stalk) and upon seeing the white stuff inside, thought that it was God.

J

When i was little,my mother told me to be a good girl because god was watching my every move.From that moment on,i was afraid of sitting on the toilet or taking a bath,because i thought that god was watching me do it.

tasha

when i was younger i got the gist that heaven was above the earth, in the clouds. i also believed that god was the same size as, and looked just like, a real man. i once spent a 4 hour flight to spain looking for him in the clouds - before finally deciding that he must be invisible! i was quite disappointed though - i was looking forward to seeing the angels in heaven!

sceptical, UK

When I was little, me and my neighbor used to think that if you dug far enough in the ground, that you would see the devil. But we always stopped when we claimed to see the devils ladder.

amanda

I was 5, watching TV, and a Nun was sitting by a patient in a hospital. The patient was being given blood. Just before the advert came on, 'end of part...' whatever, it showed the Nun's face surrounded by flames, presumbaly a metaphor for war, and how Nuns are heroic & groovy medically speaking.

I believed that Nuns could walk through fire and if they caught you while you slept, they'd kill you by draining the blood out of your body.

Needless to say, I then believed Nuns were evil, Jesus and his mates were evil, and anyone that had a cross was evil.

Didn't get much sleep for a few years.

zelenka

i thought that Devon was heaven, and that when jesus died he went to devon. i was also worried about the short time between Jesus' birth and death and had horrible images of a four month old baby being crucified.

sam

I lived in an old 3 storey house. I used to believe there was a strong chance that, when I climbed the stairs in the dark, the devil would be there waiting at the top. I would force myself to do this at night.

We also had a bathroom door with 3 froasted glass panels. Facing the mirror over the sink you could see the reflection of the door. I would force myself to look at the reflection to see if there was 2 red eyes looking in at me. There never was!

As you may have guessed I had a good catholic upbringing.

Eddie

I used to believe that God was called Peter. People used to say 'Thanks be to God' but what I heard was 'Thanks Peter God'

Mandy