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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.