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I knew that Jesus died on a cross, and I concluded that this must have made
him rather cross. I also imagined the cross as a bed of nails leaning against
a wall, holding up a scowling Jesus.
Paul S.
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I used to believe that God resembled George Washington - specifically, the actor playing George Washington in a car dealership's President's Day sale.
Josh in L.A.
I used to believe that whenever you saw the sun coming through the clouds in precise sunbeams...like they show in illustrated children's bibles...that that meant that God was talking to someone.
I told my husband this and he was very touched...and created a piece of artwork to show this!
I used to believe that God was a girl giant and that my house was the gir's dollhouse, and that i would die when the girl got bored with me.
Rachel
I live in Brazil, and speak portuguese. In portuguese, as in some other languages, the word 'heaven' is the same word of 'sky'( it´s the word 'Céu'). So, when I was about 6 or 7, I used to watch out to never be naughty especially when I was outside, ´cos it would be easier for God to see me and get angry with me, as I had no ceiling above my head.
G.Albo
When I was a little girl, I use to sneak in my mom's room at night, because I was so terrified that the devil and his helpers were going to come carry me out with pitch forks.
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I thought god looked like the face on the play-doh can!
Jonathan Franz
I am a stout athiest, but the belief stemmed from a rather childish beginning. When I was young I used to be looked after by a christian family sometimes, they had a painting of jesus on the wall with long hair. I thought anybody with long hair was a girl, and refused to worship a girl, I then concluded that god didn't exist.
Peet
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I used to think that the sky was blue because God, a handsome, toga wearing, blonde man in his 20's, would get all the animals in the forest to stand one by one on each others' shoulders and hold up a piece of blue construction paper. Obviously, night was black construction paper.
Mark Gould
When I was young, I used to go to Sunday School, and read the bible evey night before I went to bed. One night, I came across a passage that said God forgives all sin, except one - cursing the name of The Holy Spirit. This scared the absolute shit out of me. I stayed awake at night tring not to curse the name of The Holy Spirit. I was greatly disturbed, I started questioning my religious beliefs and I couldn't sleep. If Jesus forgave all sins, how come there was a New Testament passage saying "all except one?". I was terrified of accidently cursing the Holy Spirit. For a month I would talk myself to sleep saying "I curse you Satan, I love you Holy Spirit". A few times I got mixed up, and accidently said "I curse you Holt Spirit". Even though it was by accident,I knew I was bound to Hell - The Bible told me so. There was no way out.
After a month of nightmares, poor sleep and spiritual damnation, I decided the Bible was fallable, and Christianity was made up by people you used scare tatics to enforce their beliefs. I no longer believe.
FYI Luke 12:10 And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
CTF
When I was little I believed that if you
did something naughty "God" would punish
me as he was always watching. So I lived like "he" was always behind me and
knew even my thoughts. This was from my
mother and it took a long time for me to realize this is not true.
MG
My mother, the good Catholic, thought that Jesus, being a string bean (supreme being) was really skinny.
Mark D
I used to think that the devil lived in the sewers. Whenever there was steam coming out of the sewers, I thought that meant he was cooking up an evil plan.
Maya
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As a child in Sunday School, I read in the Bible that Jesus healed people with divers diseases. What the heck kind of disease could a scuba diver get? It makes a big difference when you add the letter e to divers.
J Boyd
I used to think that God looked like/ was Mr. Peanut. He was a giant peanut with a top hat, monacle and cane.
Erica
I used to believe that the Bible was written by Moses, with God whispering everything in his ear, in English.
Jj
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I was brought up as a Catholic so I completely believed that because Eve was made from one of Adam's ribs that women had one more set of ribs then men do. I believed this until my wife and I were getting an ultrasound of our triplets and the technician said she could not get a good enough picture to tell if one of the babys was a boy or a girl. Since we could clearly see the ribs I asked her why she didn't just count them to tell the sex of the baby. When she realized I was serious she started to laugh uncontrollably.
Rob
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As a child I believed I could correspond with God via letters. I wrote to him frequently releasing the paper into the wind. Eventually I realised he didnt write back and there were sheets of paper scattered throughout my yard.
Chrysi
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I used to believe that God looked exactly like the picture of Abraham Lincoln on an American penny.
Leah
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There was a kid in my neighborhood with a speech impediment that had me believing there was a guy named "Debbo" living in the sewers. He meant to say that the DEVIL lived below the Earth
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