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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
I used to have an irrational fear of devils and Hell and death. I was terrified of the color red, thinking it would open some portal into Hell. (For example, I had a red nightstand in my room, and I couldn't look at it at night, thinking it would summon the devil.) When we moved to Florida, the song "Devil Went Down to Georgia" was popular, and I was sure he'd come get me. I prayed several times a night and wouldn't move my lips for fear the devil was watching and would read my lips and harm the people I was asking God to bless. My Dad then told me that the devil can look like anyone -- he can take on the shape of anyone or anything you know. The only way to tell that it's the devil is that one part of his body would be an animal's (i.e., he'd look exactly like my dad, but have one hoof). Until I was 12 or so, I scrutinized everyone I saw -- looking for animal parts -- fearful they were the devil in disguise, coming to kill me. I was a nervous child.
Siobhan
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Originally I thought that God lived on top of the clouds. The Care Bears changed that! They lived on top of the clouds so, God must live in space among the stars or on the moon.
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