Mormon Church Pushes Back Against ‘Cartoonish Image of People Receiving Their Own Planets’
The Mormon Church is pushing back against a misconception it says has been spread by pop culture: that members of the faith are taught they’ll get their own planet in the afterlife.
The idea has been popularized by the Broadway show “The Book of Mormon,” but the church is now hoping to correct the misconception.
A newly posted article affirms the faith’s belief that humans can become like God in eternity, but says the “cartoonish image of people receiving their own planets” is not how members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints envision it....