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I remember a series of questions that I asked my mother about god when I was two years old... things like, "Was god there when I was born," etc. The first and only image of this god that I had for some time was a man wearing a purple dress shirt, a black vest, black slacks, black dress shoes, and a wide brimmed black hat. He had fairly short, straight brown hair, blue eyes, and a well-groomed beard of the same color as his hair. And there he was, just sort of standing there in the delivery room as I was being born.

Anon

I used to believe, if a colored a picture for god and I tried real hard to hand it to Him, he would reach out and take it! I was really little, before kindergarten!

Amy

I was raised without religion. When I was little, I heard other kids talking about christian stuff, and I thought it was a fairy tale or something. I was under the impresssion that when we died, religious people, who were crazy, believed we went to the enchanted forest and lived with Casper and Wendy and the Ghostly Trio. Even when I was a child, religion seemed totally nuts to me. Santa Claus seemed much more benign and believable.

F Panucci

i used to believe when i was 10 that god is a one who always punishes those who are not obeying their parents and i was so immersed in what is god...

syed zaffer

As a child I heard a line in the song "I Saw Three Ships" as "Diversion Mary and Christ were there", rather than "The Virgin Mary and Christ were there". But that was more than a mere misheard lyric for me, since "Diversion Mary" was how I heard "The Virgin Mary" generally. I didn't grow up in a religion that put much emphasis on Christ's virgin birth. Later, when I did learn what "virgin birth" meant. my understanding of the word "virgin" remained strictly in that context until I was a High School senior and then got puzzled about talk of girls "remaining virgins". For I thought the word was exclusively associated with virgin birth, that is, giving birth by "virgin birth" was the only thing that made one a virgin. So I thought, by the orthodox Christian view, at least, Mary was the only virgin that ever lived. Quite a shock when I found out the actual meaning of "virgin".

Joanna

when i was youger i used to believe i had imagionary speakers up behind my bedroom wall and when i went to sleep i could hear god speak to people.
at that age it never appeared to me that my parents room was next door and that i was hearing their muffled voices when they spoke

XXpatyXX

i used to think that the only way God could watch us all at the same time is putting video cameras everywhere.

ginny

When i was small my mom told me that God is watching everything we did, so i used to believe that He has a really huge screen with hundreds of camera watching everything everybody in the world is doing. ( I even wonder how He is able to watch so many cameras at once) I didnt know that time the world is a huge place. As far as I know that time the world is the few hundreds of peopple staying in my neighbourhood.

Clueless

There's a line in the lord's prayer about Jesus being "crucified under Pontius Pliate". In my 3-year-old mind, "Pilate" became "Pilot", so I always had this image of the Red Baron circling in his bi-plane over the site of the Passion.

It was not until 6th grade social studies that I learned the true spelling of "Pilate", and that "Pontious" is not an adjective

Anon

If you know the Sims games, I used to think that God was playing and we were all just Sims.

If you don't, it's a computer game where you make people and control them.

mysterious bystander

I used to belive there was man who lived in the sky that punished the wicked and bless the good.

Anon

On his first airplane ride, from 20,000 feet above the clouds, my nine-year-old brother looked out the window intently, then asked my mother if we could see God from there.

RunVitki

When I was a small child I could not understand about God and Jesus, so I believed that God the Father was my Grandad(the kindest man I knew) and that Jesus was my Dad.

Val

When I was very little I thought that god was a really tall skinny guy with long hair and a beard. I visualised him running long-legged through the city with tall buildings in each hand placing them in empty lots, because I had been told that god created everything and put everything in its place.

Morgy

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 used to think God and Jesus were the same person. And I grew up Catholic.

Jackie Mullinix/st louis

My uncle, the youngest of 5, grew up in a very Irish Catholic family. He was about 3 when he first really noticed Jesus on the cross. He studied it and then asked, "Who got to him?"

Elizabeth Thomas

When I went to church I used to think that the priest was God. I used to always say, "Mommy look there's God!"

Karen

I grew up in a non practicing Jewish household. When I was a kid, I believed that the story of Hannukah went like this: For some reason, the Jews were wandering in the desert trying to get to an unspecified destination. They used this huge lamp-like thing called a Menorah to help them find their way at night. One night, the lights went out and they only had enough oil to make it last one night more. However, a miracle happened and the oil lasted 8 nights, which gave them enough time to reach their final destination. I believed this story until I was in my late teens and happened to see the "Rugrats Hanukkah story" on TV.

Anon

I used to believe that the beating of our hearts was Jesus knocking reminding us that he is always there.

Jenna