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I suppose Wednesday would know about the LDS church. If she's not an insider there, who would be? It's possible there are nested levels of knowledge of things, but if Wednesday's life is well-integrated with the church culture, there would have been clues if she was being excluded from some levels. (Policed? A guarded moment among her parents. Only males? An unusual reaction to a brother's outburst. Only adults? Comments like 'you'll understand when you're older'.) Wednesday might consider that she's an outsider even in her own church, but it’s much more likely that something she didn’t know is true about a small subset (the elder men in the church) than about things she fully participated in, Truman-Show-style.
It does take a while before you get told about the eternally-pregnant fertility goddess you'll become in the afterlife.
Say what?
Hold on. There's too much information about LDS around, and I'm having trouble narrowing down their beliefs to confirm or deny your statement.
Off-hand, I'd assume it's a joke, but I've seen weirder things in religion. Could you clarify?
Not a joke, exactly, but a caricature. To paint it in broad brushstrokes that LDS would surely quibble over, the Mormons believe that good enough humans can become gods, that spirits have genders as well and marriage continues into the afterlife, and that human couples that become gods can go on to populate their own worlds with their spirit children.
Also, the angels are spirit-children of God too (like humans) and some humans were also, or will become, angels. Adam, for instance, was also the archangel Michael.
The belief in people becoming angels is not unique to Mormonism. For example, some Jewish kabbalists claimed that the archangel Metatron was Enoch.