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I believed on the Three Kings. We used to leave them grass in a shoe box and water for the camels and they would leave us presents. Until I found the shoe box in te garbage...buuuhuuu

Nilsa

I used to ask my mother how God could hear everybody's prayers, since we were all praying at the same time. She said, "Oh, God is everywhere." That was when I started thinking of God as being grossly obese.

Lucy

When we said the pledge of Allegiance, I used to think we were "One nation, under God, Invisible". I thought that God was like and invisibility cloak and God just layed over the country so no one else could see us.

Anon

When my brother was little, the "Oh God!" movies were very popular. Poor kid thought God looked exactly like George Burns. I wonder if he still does! (He's now 29.) I remember asking Mother if God did look like George Burns. She just smiled and said nobody knew what God looked like. I am three years younger than my brother.

Hilary The Baker

My brother is three years older than me. The only memory I have of the "Oh, God!" movies is thanks to him. I remember that my brother thought that God must look like George Burns. I guess I misunderstood that as "George Burns is God." I was so young that I barely remember the pictures.

I guess I also believed that all angels were blond and that the Saints had never been real people, because all the Sunday School teachers kept telling us they were dead and most had lived centuries ago. Now I know that the Saints were indeed real people and love them dearly. (Particularly St. Patrick.)

Hilary the Baker

I used to think that G-d looked like the Wizard's big projected face in "The Wizard of Oz".

Anon

I used to believe that when Jesus was nailed to the cross they just pinned him up by the loose bits of skin between his fingers and toes so it wouldn't hurt too much. I was horrified when I found out how people were actually crucified!

Sarah

When I was about 6 or 7 and in a Lutheran Vacation Bible School class, I used to think that if we talked about how bad Satan was, he would be waiting at the door outside the church when we left, and would grab us all and take us to hell. This left my mind when I turned 10 and realized how boring the town I lived in was, so I thought I'd already lived and died and went to hell. I was not raised in a religious home, and it shows. To this day, I still refer to my home town as Hell even though I'm a devoted Methodist believer.

MethChick

I used to believe the devil could hear my thoughts. I also thought the devil was in the TV and in the radio.

Lara

I used to believe god lived on one side of the sky and the devil lived on the other. I also believed that they would have wars with each other. God spearing lighting bolts and the devil spearing red tridents.
I also believed that when you die, you get put on a cloud to find your own way to heaven or hell.

Anon

when I was in the fourth grade a nun told us in the class a story about a man who wrote the name Mary on his pillow every night with his finger.when he died he went to heaven and confronted St Peter at the front gates of heaven where he was told that he was'nt good enough on earth to be let into heaven.As he sadly walked away the Virgin Mary called to him and snuck him in the back door.I am 62 years of age and have not went to sleep without writing Mary on my pillow since I was told that story in the fourth grade.(ps hope it works)

Jim Fogarty

when i was in nursery school my mom was with me and i stopped and saw the rabbi walking down the hall and said look mom there is g-d i dont know if this happened but my mom insist that it did

domad

that god looked like mario no idea how i got that idea

Anon

I used to believe that God was always sitting in a big chair on cloud and I thought rain was God's urine, snow was God's shit(?) and of course thunder... was God's fart. Jehovah is vast! ;)

Hyun-ah

When I was a youngin' I sometimes wondered if some God like figure made cardboard cutouts of everybody every moment (kind of like an animation). These cardboard cutouts were of course made from a giant machine. The cutouts only really existed if somebody was looking at the person though.

Kyle

When I was younger I used to think that God was a genie, my friend told me that he had thought that his priest was the Jesus fella they went on about so maybe things should be better explained in church!

Juliet

I used to study in a Christian kindergarten and a Christian elementary school. I was told that God knows the sorrow, guilts, happiness...everything of everything of us! At that time, I thought the God "watched" by televisions and our daily lives were broadcast lived through our corresponding television. I was so amazed that God could watch billions of TV at the same time, managing to know every single movement of all his believers.

Oiman

I grew up in an assimilated jewish home. As a young child, I wanted to know more about Judaism and nobody was telling me anything and we were not getting more involved in Jewish life. I used to think that this was because we had to be the level of religion that we were raised in. Thank G-d later I found out different and I'm living a observant Jewish lifestyle!

Anon

i used to believe that i was jesus

ashley scanlan

I used to think that I.N.I.R on the crucifix meant "I'm nailed right in".

Jamie