# Mormons: Automatic Heaven before Age 8?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [December 16, 2017, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mormons-automatic-heaven-before-age-8/804631 "2017-12-16T13:58:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mormons-automatic-heaven-before-age-8/804631/3 "2017-12-16T14:12:30Z")

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Thanks! Here are the original quotes:

> [@Shouldn't Christians praise abortion doctors?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shouldnt-christians-praise-abortion-doctors/804589/22):
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> …It shouldn’t be necessary to state this, but given you WAG’s, let me be perfectly clear: None of the Mormons I know would endorse slaughtering an elementary school.

> [@Shouldn't Christians praise abortion doctors?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shouldnt-christians-praise-abortion-doctors/804589/23):
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> Of course not, that would be horrific. BUT, if they truly believed their religion it really shouldn’t be horrific but lucky. If after 8 years old you are fit to be judged by your Heavenly Father, but before that day you’d have a free pass to the best heaven, logic would dictate that mass-murder of these kids was actually a very good thing to happen. Sure, you’d suffer here on Earth because of humanly feelings of sadness and anger, but that is pretty meaningless in the span of your whole existence.

> [@Shouldn't Christians praise abortion doctors?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shouldnt-christians-praise-abortion-doctors/804589/24):
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> I don’t want to divert us too far from the topic, but you’re missing some important understanding about Mormon doctrine, like the war in heaven and the purpose of life.

I’ve edited the top one slightly to remove an irrelevant comment.

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