church

I used to believe that transubstantiation was just symbolic or a metaphor - it never occured to me that Catholics are supposed to believe it's real

Ina

Of course our church had an organ. I thought the harder you pressed the keys, the louder it played. The easier you pressed the keys, the softer it played. To give it that warbling effect, I thought the organ player was wiggling his/her fingers on the keys.

Anon

I used to believe, and very strongly and at a very young age, that only our particular Catholic Church parish of my German ancestors was the absolute only church which worshipped god in the right way. I was therefore appalled when my parents took me to another church in our smallish town when a German cousin was marrying a someone from the French/Irish Catholic parish. But then my eyes were opened and I came to realize that I had French ancestors too, so that was ok.... it was a few years later that things finally got straightened out with me concerning not only Catholics but all faiths.

Lynn

I used to be scared to walk
into the sanctuary of our
church, alone b/c I always
thought that the pews were
made out of dust from hell
and tht if you sat on them
he would come out!

anon

I used to believe that Muslim women had to be covered up 24/7 and couldn’t even wear t-shirts because that would be considered “immodest”. I mean, how could they go swimming (I know know that they make special swimsuits for that, but I obviously didn’t when I was growing up), or take baths/showers?

Marideth

I used to think that Christian was an ethnicity

Anon

When I was ten I asked my mother if she was a Catholic or a Prostitute.

Nick Tucker

I remember as a young Jewish kid in a religious school, about 5-6 years old, learning about Isaac and Ishmael and the notions of the two separate religiong Judaism and Islam. I have two brothers and occasionally we would fight and then forgive each other and get along again. And I remember thinking of Muslims: "they're our brothers, and we need to forgive each other and get along again." I actually would start looking around the synogague during prayers hoping to see some of our "brothers" who had decided to forgive us.

Anon

My Dad repaired an orphanage with his own money. To honor the Catholic children there, he met with the Pope to have thier rosaries blessed (prayer beads). For the longest time, I thought it was strange that the orphanage allowed my Dad to travel with their "roses".

K

I thought the bible was an old bloke that worked at Ebenezer Methodist Church (like the caretaker), who kept saying wise things that were then relayed to us by our Sunday School teachers.

Sev

When I was little I belived that everyone in the whole world was catholic.

Matt

I never really knew much about religion outside of mine (catholic). So I used to think that if a person was Christian, they were either Catholic or "other" I had know idea about the other, though.

HannahJean

When I was about eight years old, myself, my parents and my twin brother were in the car on the way to some family outing or other. We drove past a huge mormon church and I asked my mother what it was. She told me that is was a mormon church and my idiotic, eight year old mind equated mormons with moomins. Until I was twelve I thought mormon churches were places where big, white marshmellowy creatures congregated.

Hannah

When I was young, in our Anglican church we had a priest from Australia. I honestly thought that he said the word "ply" instead of "pray" in his sermons! I asked Mother if he was talking about plywood! She said, "no, he said pray!"

Hilary the Baker

As a kic growing up in Texas i thought that only hispanic people were catholic

Matt

When my cousin was about 5 years old she was in church and stayed for the whole service instead of going to childern's class. when communion time came she stood up and shouted "Hey! It's snack time!"

cali

When I read the phrase in the Bible "Thou art there," I thought that it was same as saying "there's art there."

Anon

At my church, before communion, we say "let us keep the feast, alleluia". For the longest time, I thought it was "let us eat the feast, alleluia".

Laura

wgen I was in kindergarten catholic school I haf just learned about ccd. it was like a thing where you go once a week to learn about god. before I started it me and my friends thought that ccd was this evil group of kids who would come into the school at night and ruin it. because our desks had been drawn on. when my mom told me I was going to start ccd i cried. it waas so funny

sophie

I was raised Catholic, and when I was a child, I believed that the reason we sang a song at the end of the mass was so that the priest could escape without our seeing him leave.

Helana