What did you believe in when you were a child?

Question

Feel free to express your childhood beliefs and if anything caused your views to change.

My Example:
I, myself, was raised christian and stuck with it. My views never really changed over the years although I did have a curiousity in the wiccan belief and have dabbled. But then I got out of that and back to my roots again as a christian.

Answer 1

My mom tells me that when I was younger, I would wave up at the sky and she would ask what I was doing, and I would say waving at God. But then I remember, myself that I thought that Father, Son, and Holy Spirit meant God, Jesus, and Santa Claus. In my adolescence I was sort of an unquestioning Agnostic. I didn't really know if God existed, but I didn't really think about it that much. I did Christian things more as a matter of cultural ritual. When I was in high school, I started considering myself an Atheist. The Idea of God didn't make any sense to me, although, in hindsight I was focusing only on mainstream Christianity's view of God. After graduation, I started practicing Wicca, and I realized that something was real about it. There was something beyond the human range of experience, and even though it doesn't fit the concept of Christianity's God, I felt it was easier to conceive it as "God" rather than any other term. I now have no particular religion. I believe that they all have some truth, but none of them are completely true. I believe that true spirituality should come from questioning what we know about existence, and not believing in something just because someone else tells us to. This goes for science as well as religion.

Answer 2

I believed in the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus. I believed in Jesus and God and all that Christian stuff.

I am now a Pagan High Priestess. What caused my beliefs to change? Well, I gave up on Christianity a few years ago. I realized it wasn't the religion for me, being that I pretty much was not allowed to be my natural self if I was going to be a Christian. So I left and was an Agnostic. About a year after I left Christianity, I realized there was a religion based on all the things I already believed and cherished and it was called Paganism.

Answer 3

Praise the Lord for you testimony! I was raised a catholic, but always felt there was something not right there. I am now a Christian and see what was wrong with catholicism. They do not teach salvation, and have their own doctrine that is not of God.
I witnessed as a child in the catholic church, where the nuns and the priests were makeing out behind the rectory when they thought no one was looking. Their books that they teach out of are not the word of God.
They dont' have a problem with abortion or murder, because when they tore down the old nun's convent to rebuild a new one, countless skelltons of babiles were unearthed.
But I am greatful that the Lord convicted my heart and I am born again.

Answer 4

I was raised as a Christian, but no longer considered myself Christian when I became an adult and actually gave some thought to the whole purpose of Christianity -- ending up in heaven/hell.

I remained agnostic for 30 years until I discovered Judaism. I am now a Jew and am loving it more every day!

Shalom

Answer 5

I believed in many different deities but didn't know their names. The first day of every season was very important to me but I didn't know why. I couldn't understand how a deity could be all positive or all negative. I didn't feel that there was only one way to relate to deities. My parents never told me any of the Santa or Easter bunny myths.

What's changed in 40 years? I celebrate the first day of each season as a minor holiday rather than as a major one. I know some of the names of my deities although I still use titles for some.

Answer 6

When I was very little, I forget know how old I was, I thought that life happened over and over again, and the same thing happened every time. I had an image that I made up in my mind, that God was playing with a toy train, and everyone in the world was on his toy train, and every time it passed him, everyone's life started over again. Haha, crazy thoughts of a child. But that was before I realized what a religion even was, so now, years later, I am a devoted servant of God.

Answer 7

I believed in God when I was a child, however; I did not understand the scarifice and love in which Jesus willingly took away our sins.
What I believed as a child, I have enriched with the knowledge, both head and heart, of our Saviour.

And behold, in the city of David, a child has been born. A Saviour for all.

Answer 8

Hmmmmmm, tis not too long ago, about 9 years ago when I found out Santa wasn't real(I'm 13, it was when my great grandpa labeled on of the gifts "Santa G", we call him Grandpa G), then I started thinking about what I believed in when I was about 7, I still went to church with my grandma when she asked me, and last summer when my cousins came over I went to one of those church gatherings for teens, anyway, when I was about 9 I started believing in a god and a goddess, and now at 13, I am Wiccan, oh, and I used to believe in teh tooth fairy, till my cousin found a bag of teeth in his mom's dresser, that was about 7 years ago, never really believed in the easter bunny, thought it was stupid.

Answer 9

The day I learned Santa Claus wan't real was the day the whole world began to make sense. Question everything! Accept nothing! Whatever someone tells you, consider the source and look for their hidden agenda!

(oh, and I also thought the wolfman lived under my bed)

Answer 10

I never believed in Santa or any of that mumbo-jumbo. My Christmas presents from Santa always seemed to have my grandmother's handwriting on them.


Oh, but I did believe in Superman.

I had the action figures, the sheets, wallpaper, all the good stuff.