So on a slightly more serious note...
I'm thinking of writing a blog on various world religions, and for the several major movements in each, with the goal to be reducing the amount of wildly inaccurate information being spread about the religion. The main ones I would want to focus on initially would be the non-evangelical Christianity (since evangelicalism seems pretty well understood) such as LDS, Orthodoxy, and Catholicism; Islam, and it's major branches within Sunni and Shia; Buddhism, as well as it's place as Religion vs Philosophy; and Hinduism. I realize I'm picking on Christians here a bit, but some of my friends and fellow Christians have displayed a downright xenophobic and somewhat ghastly mischaracterization of not just other religions, but other sects within Christianity. I'm sure you've encountered (maybe even from me a while ago) the sentiment that LDS theology prevents it from being a "Christian" religion. While I wouldn't want to judge the contents of the religion, I would want to make sure that the information discussed is at least accurate.
And since you're a resident LDS member....
I've been talking with friends about the various sects and denominations within the Christian tradition (I say this because it was the only way I could get them to include the Latter Day Saints movement), and it strikes me that most denominations are widely different on what the, for lack of a better word, "salvation status" is of those who follow a different tradition. For instance, the church I grew up in believed that Catholicism and Orthodoxy were valid, if not one hundred per cent correct (The idea being that belief in Jesus's resurrection was the bare minimum). Interestingly, they thought that the addition of Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon was heretical, but that the people were good, so it was a little more up in the air dependent on who was speaking.
Please excuse any wildly off base assumptions here, because my main exposure to LDS doctrine has been through evangelical anti-Mormon propaganda and Wikipedia, but how does the LDS movement view the "Salvation Status" of other, non-LDS sects? Or other religions that have Abrahamic roots, such as Islam and Judaism?
I've heard of a three-tiered approach (which may be confused with the Hell/Purgatory/Heaven system in Dante's Divine Comedy) in which non-Christians are sent to hell, or some equivalent thereof, and Christians go two different routes depending on if they were LDS or not. The Christians who are not LDS are sent to paradise (or some such) while those who are LDS pull a Stargate-like Ascension and become like God. I've understood that temple marriages are meant to seal the marriage here on earth so that it may be continued there.
How off-base am I? I've heard stories of Mormon cosmology (which I got to hand it to you, is pretty dang epic. I can see why Glen Larson used it as inspiration for BSG), so this doesn't seem impossible, but I'd rather get input from actual Mormons, you know?
Also, Mormon is kind of an unfortunate name in English with the advent of autocorrect. I accidentally mistyped it the other day (Mornon) and my phone autocorrected to "Moron". I chuckled a little bit, but only because lots of English words are one missing character away from being insulting/dirty.