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My mum kept asking me "who made you?" possibly meaning for me to say God! I eventually answered "the baker" I imagined the crazy Swedish chef from the muppet show ( known to me as the baker) actually made me in his kitchen with a wooden spoon and a bowl. He was my favourite muppet!

oppinionata

I don't know why, but up until I was about 6, I thought Jesus was from England

HannahMontana

Jesus, Santa, The pledge of allegiance, Patriotism and Mr. Clean: Talk about confused. I mixed all these things together into one BIG idea.

I believed Santa was like a real good friend or possibly an employee of Jesus' who passed out Jesus' birthday presents to the world because Jesus was that generous and loving but he had things of much greater importance to take care of than doing the actual delivering so Santa handled that part.

The Pledge from the mind of a 6 year old:
"I pledge (what mom uses to dust the good furniture) allegiance (what's that?) to the flag (am I supposed to dust the flag), of the United States of America, unto [and to] the republic (who's the republic?) for witches stand [for which it stands], one nation (pause) under God (pause) indivisible (huh?) with liberty (pause) and justice (pause) for all. (Amen)

America The Beautiful (Patriotism)
I knew God was called OUR FATHER and that God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost are the same or are one. So when I heard "America the Beautiful," and it says "Land where my Father died," then talks about the landscape a great deal, I believed that God was Born in America and died (Jesus) there and the reason the song has so many references to the landscape was because God Made Heaven and America (the Earth) and this was really a gosple song praising the beautiful creation God has made.

Mr. Clean
My best friend thought that the Mr. Clean character was God (do a google search if you don't know what he looks like), I didn't think he was God, but thought he was probably related to Him.

Phooie

When I was 3-4 I used to believe images of the Virgin, Jesus in the cross and the Guardian Angel would grow during night time until becoming horrorific figures/monsters that would swallow me or even worse, make me become insane. I spent many nights crying out loud and calling my mom to talk to the Virgin or the Guardian Angel. When I was 6-7 I decided to take any religious figure out of my bedroom... That's when I could sleep in peace.

Trinity

I used to think that Jesus was buried on the local graveyard, and whenever I was there with my familiy, me and my sister would run around and try to find the gravestone wich said "Jesus". I was very young when I did this, I don't think I understood that there were more graveyards than this one. I can also remember that I was very confused when I didn't find the grave...

Chris

When I was a kid, I believed Jesus was a hippie...peace signs and everything..and he sat up in the sky with two other Gods from different religions, and they all had blue jeans on..hence why I thought the sky was blue.
Man what went on in my head..

Laura..

I used to believe (and still kinda do) that I was in direct contact with God. Nowadays I occasionally ask favours of God, but when I was smaller it was so much weirder. I used to wage 'bets' against God, and they weren't little bets either. Here's an example:
Me: *To God* If my sister doesn't pass me the milk carton I'll die.
God: *silence*
I would then implore my sister to give me the carton, but I didn't tell her why because I knew it seemed stupid.
As well as 'betting' I used to 'bargain'. For example, I would ask God to make me into a kind of alien I'd read about in a book (Animorphs series) in exchange for say, several years of my lifespan. After weeks of patience and no transformation, despite convincing myself it was happening for the first few days, I gave up on asking God to change my physical form and moved onto bartering for an increased lifespan for my family. I was a thoughtful kid if nothing else.

Paranoid British Kid.

when i was about 5 i was going to church and everyone would say that god lived up in the clouds. with god living with the clouds i naturaly thought that when it rained it was god taking a leck.

Anon

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

I thought that Samson and Solomon from the Bible were the same person for the longest time...

Laura G.

i was an Indian on an assignement to Minnesota - residing at Ramsgate Apartments. when another friend joined me, i told her that this place was named after the Lord Ram, an Hero in the Indian Epic Ramayanam. She beleived it for quiet a while and conveyed the same to her parents back home.

priya

I used to think my priest was a bit foolish for never having noticed that Dog is God written backwards

anticap

I used to think MARIA is the WIFE of JESUS!

Chrono

I used to believe that God was like a puppeteer, controlling every single movement we made.

Carrie C. in PA

I used to think that since God was in charge and watching us all, at all times. That he moved us around like dolls in a doll house, that was my visualization till about 8yrs of age.
Also thought that you couldn't laugh, smile or clap in church.

Cangirl

When i was about 4 or 5, for the longest time, i believed that the preist of our church was god.

hunnybee

When I was 5, I yelled at my mom for giving me bad dinner, and then I stubbed my toe. So my mom was like-that's what God does when you're disrespectful to your parents. Now whenever I stubb my toe, I ask 'what did I do?'!

myra

You know that one man's voice on radio ad's and movie previews? When I was little, I thought that was the Voice of God, running the whole show.

KT

Until high school, I thought that Calvinism was named for Calvin Coolidge. Not an entirely ridiculous confusion, since both were associated with a work ethic.

Danielle

I used to believe God was sitting up on a cloud, wearing a blue suit and a red tie, and looking very much like a guy I had seen on t.v.

lizzie