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I went to Catholic school, and when I was about 9 I committed the "original" sin of taking communion without first going to confession.......I worried myself SICK over this, thinking something really awful was gonna happen to me! It didn't, and I'm now totally non-religious! Guilt? Who needs it!

Jayne

When i was little our piano recitals were in a church. I saw the hymn books page numbers on the bulliten thingy... i thought that every time you went you got a number and the people with those numbers would get sacrificed on the cross, like jesus.

trulyjewish

I thought that "Thou shalt not commit adultery" means you do not watch any movies which is only for adults, read adult books, talk about sex or possess adult materials. It is true that god detests those kind of things.

Anon

In my church there were coat hangers with buttons on them. My mom told me that the buttons controlled the fans on the ceiling so I would sit there pressing the buttons to try to turn on and off the fan but for some odd reason they were always broken!!!

Mac_and_Duck

I used to believe that Jerusalem and all the other places the Bible talked about were made up, so the stories in it had to be made up too. I didn't understand why they talked about the same book at church every week, why didn't they ever get a new one?

Still an atheist

When I was young, I always attend church services. When one pastor would talk about what hell looks like, I thought that he said a bad word in front of the audiences. My father corrected me at age 8 that 'hell' was not meant to be use as a swear word, hell is a place of eternal punishment for the wicked.

Anon

My next door neighbor had to go to something called CCD and I didn't know what it was. I asked her, and she just said it was for church. For a while, I thought it meant they were looking for christian music- Seeing CD's, CCD, right? haha.

katie

I grew up in the south where a lot of churches used grapejuice instead of wine at communion. They used to pass the "wine" and bread (little cubes of white bread) down the aisle and only grownups were allowed to have any. I thought that these were "refreshments" and I didn't think it was fair that the kids couldn't have some too.

Lucy

I used to believe that when everyone would bless themselves in church that they all had an itch at the same time.

Laur

When I went to Church when I was little, I used to believe that the vicar was Jesus and I was really scared of him. My Sunday school teacher tried to convince me he wasn't Jesus, and I went, "He'll know you said that."

Lucilla

when I was smaller I used to believe that the people other than the ones in my family
lived in the church and boy was I surprised when my mum took me to some of their houses.

WOW

I used to think that if you didn't go to church or you weren't religous you would go straight down below thats what I called ever since I saw Hercules. But anyway I always tried to be on my best behavior.

Katherine

I used to believe Islam was the first religion in the world.

Mohamed91

I used to believe that the Pope was an evil person. I first saw him on TV during some world crisis. I thought that someone who wears that bright of white with all that gold has to be evil. He was also old an had to be escorted (like a boss of some mafia movie). People still haven't proved me wrong...

Viet

WHen i was in third grade we were eating lunch at my public school and one girl went, "Catholics are trying to take over the world! i know because my dad told me!" I, being Catholic, told her that "it wasnt true and i would know because im Catholic"

Also....
sometimes a friend will say they're Christian and ill go, "Me too" and they're like, "i thought you were Catholic" and im like, "Catholics are Christians" and i have to explain to them all about Catholics and Protestents.

Its surprising to hear everyone's beliefs about Catholisism

Anon

When I was around 9 years old on a Sunday morning my older brother and I was watching a sermon on TV. The pastor told the congregation to turn to II (second) Corinthians. My brother said it was 11 (eleven) Corinthians and stuck to his guns. My dad is a minister so I asked him, why it was called eleven Corinthians he said where in the world I got that information. My brother got his butt spanked. People don't play with the bible.

Wendy

I used to believe that the songs on the radio that you heard playing in the stores were God's CD-player.

Joyce

When I was 3 my mom told me when everyone was receiving communion in a Catholic Church, I said, how come I did not get any cookies.

Anon

I'm Catholic and when my friends and I were about 7, just before we made our First Communion, we would practice with Jacobs cream crackers which is weird cos they look nothing like Communion wafers!

Clare, Ireland

religuously, i used to believe catholics were different, martians practically, even though i played with them every day, it got worse before it got better

eric - northern ireland