When you were a kid, how earnestly did you believe in god/religion?

I was extremely fortunate that my parents didn't shove that crap down my throat, like so many of my childhood friends. So many were confused and miserable, being taught one thing on Sunday while watching their parents and the other adults do the exact opposite, every other day of the week.

As a small child, I always sensed that something was "wrong" with religion. As I approached adolescence, my interpretations of it got increasingly more figurative, until finally it just didn't work. Practicing religion seemed like nothing more than a way to keep the masses from becoming anarchists.

When you're a kid you obviously aren't well informed or capable of making serious decisions due to a lack of maturity. So I just went with the flow.

A lot. I was a Jesus freak when I was in the 8th grade. It's hard to believe I'm an atheist now.

My parents never pushed any religion on me, or made me go to church. But my whole family is a blend of different religions; my dad's an atheist, mom's a christian (a proper, kind and caring one; not one that bashes everyone with a bible and hates anyone that lives or believes differently than her), uncle's a Wiccan, etc. So I didn't develop a spiritual curiosity until middle school, which my parents let me explore on my own. Which I'm very grateful for.

My parents don't believe (and still don't believe) in any religion, and I usually don't think of myself as doing so either. My primary school (ages 4-11) was very religious though, as most primary schools are. I never really bought into the literal details of the Bible and Christian teaching, but I enjoyed a lot of the stories and the moral messages (were we never shown any homophobic or overtly sexist teachings - at least as far as I can remember). I definitely feel like it was a positive influence on me and helped shape my moral thinking, although I'm sure I could have got the same moral messages from other sources (even being taught about Harry Potter might have done the trick) and I'd like to have been better exposed to world religions and especially non-Abrahamic religions. I think our teachers feared backlash from authoritative religious parents if they gave us too much exposure to other beliefs.

I chose this but its not completely true...just the closest one.
(I'd pray and think of loved ones in heaven, but not much beyond that)

But I prayed and I went to church as a kid ...even bible camp.
but never by force...by choice.
my mom never went to church or forced any beliefs on me. I just went to different churches with different friends because I chose to go...and if I didnt want to go I didn't have to.
I never felt fear...but of course I felt guilt when I did something bad I have a conscience :P

We had religious freedom and before my brother was atheist he had a buddhist moment... tho he had less freedom then me because he lived with his dad... so forced to go to church and stuff for him.

I was raised Fundamental Christian so I believed whole heartedly when I was a child. The older I got the more unsatisfactory answers I got to my questions though. As an adult I waver between Atheism and Anti-theism.

My faith was unshakable as a child....

I didn't. My parents tried so damn hard to no avail. I knew from a very very young age that talking bushes and morphing snakes and people living in whales stomachs and walking on water and ALL THE OTHER BS in the bible was total crap. A book that sets guidelines for the possible eternal damnation of your soul, SHOULD NOT leave things open to interpretation by using colorful metaphor and imagery. It's such a huge crock of shit. If the Romans hadn't executed Jesus, who they saw as a cult leader and a threat to roman power, he never would have been a martyr and Christianity wouldn't exist. So many ignorant morons follow it blindly with their mouths wide open. It's rare you meet an evangelist that actually knows something about the REAL history of the religion the spew.

I chose the shame one because that is what I think about when I consider the "church" phase of my life which lasted until my parents split when I was 14. But my religious experience is all cut up into "phases" like that because when they split I loosely stayed in that life but now I was only doing the fun stuff with friends and THAT lasted until I dropped out of college and lost whatever faith I had altogether. I was just starting to explore other ideas and spirituality in general around the time I found this site.
I didn't realize this until recently, but I've always been searching for that next spiritual high even as far back as kindergarten. I try and tell myself it's truth I'm searching for, but I've been pretty pessimistic about the whole thing lately.

I knew more about dinosaurs than God and religion when I was a little kid.

My religious education was kinda lax. I didn't go to Confession or receive First Communion till I was 14.