I was raised Fundamentalist Christian. I know you all know stories, but here's mine:

[Playingmantis]

131. My story

Let me add yet another story of the Christian life I was brought up in..

My father was very religious..in fact a priest once called him a religious fanatic..

I was just a child when he told me the following story...

There were two little boys who were friends but one of them died..One night the little boy whose friend had died had an apparition.. his dead friend appeared to him and told him,, "You better be good or what happened to me will happen to you!" The boy asked what that was. The other replied,, "I am burning in Hell for all eternity!"
The first boy wanted a sign to know this was not a dream and the other boy agreed to leave one..
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The next day the living boy awoke and found the sign.... A LITTLE HAND PRINT BURNED INTO HIS BEDROOM DOOR!"

Don't think that didn't affect me..I had nightmares for years about hell, hearing voices of demons talking to me and once awakening to find what I thought was blood all over my sheets.. i frantically tried to wipe it away only to realize it was only shadows from the tree outside...

On a lighter note..

Now they say the family that prays together stays together. One evening my mother and father and myself knelt down to make a novena....that is saying the rosary with readings from a book about the various mysteries of the faith. My mother was doing the reading and she suddenly developed a British accent! She thought she was being sophisticated... My father and I started to snicker and tried not to laugh but she saw us.. She slammed down the book and said , "I'll be a son of bitch! You think this is funny!!? " and stomped out!! ha! ha ha!

Oh the wonders of prayer!!!