church

My jew friend told me god was real , and i believed it

Anon

When I was about 3 or 4, I went to "big church" with my dad. Southern Baptist take communion differently than Catholics - the ushers pass a silver tray of round wafers down each row, followed by a tray of tiny thimble sized glasses of grape juice. Because I had not been baptised yet, my dad did not let me take a wafer or juice. I remember crying the entire way home from church, because he would not let me have juice and crackers like everyone else!

sandi

As a child I believed that God created the world, and Jesus painted it. Hehe, as an adult, it's almost correct! ;)

Olafwa

i went to a catholic school in grade school. our church used to be between our house and my school so i used to pass by the church almost every day. one of the reasons why i loved passing by the church then was because the holy water smelled so sweet and flowery to me, i used to think it was really made that way. i would drop my rosary and my veil in it, and my hankies so i could take the scent home with me. after many years, one day i noticed it did not have the scent anymore and i told my mom.."why don't they put perfume in the holy water anymore?"..it was only then when my mother said "they never used to.." that i realized that i was the only one smelling the scent. i felt sad and happy at the sametime ..sad for losing it, and happy that i was given that small miracle while i was growing up.

aurora from manila, philippines

I used to believe Mr. Rogers lived in my church.

whitey

INWAS TOLD IF I CUT MY HAIR I WOULD GO TO HELL.

JEANETTE

I used to belive that bible's ate brains.

MJK

I used to believe in God, the Bible, Jesus and Christianity. Not only believe but I used to tell other people about Jesus. Then I thought about it...I thought about how God created everything, and how he knows everything that will happen before it actually does. Then I realized that if there is a God that he created Hitler knowing what he'd do to all those innocent Jews before he was even born.
Considering this, I no longer believe that there is a God. I now believe that we are born, we live, and we die...and that's all there is to it.

Sarah

I am one of those people who think they are always right. Well i have been a Christian, gone to church all my life, and went to a Christian School until recently. Well a year or two ago my mother and i were talking about an organ donation that a man had went through. (He had to give up one of his lungs.) Well i said, "Did he live?" My mom-of course-answered yes, and asked why he would have died. Well i had believed my whole life that when God made man, he took a lung out of him rather than a rib. My mom had to get her Bible out and prove to me that i was wrong.

Erica

I used to think if you drank holy water you would live forever

Im buddhist

when i was a kid and i was at mass, i used to believe that the smell of the incense was the smell of the grown ups around me, the smell of their freckles! i know, weird. but in my defence i was a pale kid with almost no freckles so i assumed thats what the smell was. i used to hate that smell.

Kevin Doran

I used to think Christians were people who liked to eat crisps.

Anon

I used to believe that Jahovahs Witnesses were people who were in the IRA who had seen something happen on the rock of Gibralta.

Mazzkitten

when I was younger, I thought that only the good girls could become nones and I was always wondering what wrong did my mother in order not to be a none.....

Anon

when i was really young, like about 3 my parents were out of town for a week and we had a babysitter. she took us to church, which was something i hadn't done before since we weren't religious. it was excruciatingly boring but after a while of sitting there i thought i would try to listen to what was being said (because i couldn't see over the pews i thought it was just over a loud speaker or something). i coulnd't figure out why they kept talking about something called "cheesus" and couldn't fathom what the big deal with cheese was. i still don't get it, to be honest.

alice

I've just turned 35, and was raised as a Catholic, doing everything that came with it - First Communion, Confirmation, and a whole lot of lessons both at school and church. And yet - until fairly recently, I NEVER realized that they REALLY meant that the host becomes the body of Christ. I thought it was all symbolic. My boyfriend, who is Church of England, had a very hard time convincing me of it. Well, although I had't really believed in any god for a long time, that certainly did it for me.

Ina, Germany

I used to think that the speakers at the kingdom hall of jehovahs whitnesses were always telling a story, because they would always quote the bible by saying "the bible says that..." So I imagined a black book saying somthing.

Sam

i always thought in pictures God looked like Santa Claus. Once i told my friend what i thought she said, "Maybe God is Santa Claus!"

Kimmie

I was in a somewhat cool western civ class at a large kansas university. I had recently been converted from catholicism to some sort of wishshy- washshy christian, then a sort of wishshy-washsy agnosticism, The western civ paper that was to be written was on the quran (kuran) whatever. The thesis of the paper was something to the effect of The Quran: The Most Feminist Thing Written To Date 633 (or so) AD. It was fairly easygoing seriously it seems more feminist than any ayatollah will tell you. In my research though one or more of the points I went to the creation story. It is Adam ans Eve. Not really exactly how i once heard it. No rib to prove why man is better than woman. Noah was a lie. Adam and Eve were monkeys and named uhg and tiffni. Moses and Abraham and Jesus and Buddha and Shiva and all of them were maybe smart, probably a little pretentious, and definitely not gods or related to any gods or in contact with any gods. It started to sink in the rib thing was a lie like santa and all of it. After less than 1 minute of research I found out at the age of 20 that women and men have the same amount of ribs.

Anon

When I was really little, I always wondered why I got to celebrate Christmas, and Jewish people got to celebrate Hannukah and Christmas....now I know better, lol!!

weirdo