On the birth of your child, a demon appears and says, "Your child will be extraordinarily attractive, you shall receive $1 billion if they are a virgin at age 25, otherwise your soul and theirs will be mine". You cannot inform your child of any aspect of the deal. What is your plan?

Yeah, no...

That is almost exclusively "a Baptist thing". I don't mean that in a derogatory way, I mean it in that it is literally the defining characteristic of the Baptist faith.

In the Catholic faith as I was taught it (Note: I did not go to Catholic school but my family is exclusively Catholic rather than Methodist or Baptist or what have you) the key points are that:

  • Almost without exception, in order to go to Heaven you will first go to "Purgatory".
  • Purgatory is not "neutral"--it is VERY "hell like"... you just get to go to heaven "eventually".
  • Where you "start" in Purgatory matters a lot in how bad your experience will be as you never go "down floors", you only have to ascend up.

  • Pre-Purgatory: If you died without going to Confession for and subsequently paying full penance for every single sin you've ever committed you go here. You also go here if you die "unexpectedly" (without receiving last rites). You will have to wait for a full lifetime in line before you're allowed on the first terrace of Purgatory.

  • Floor 1: You get a boulder strapped on your back and you have to walk in circles around statues of the fallen angels until you have been completely absolved of all pride.

  • Floor 2: They sew your eyes shut with metal wires and make you listen to preaching until you are absolved of all Envy.

  • Floor 3: You walk around in tear gas until you have been absolved of all Wrath.

  • Floor 4: You do hard labor until you are absolved of all Sloth.

  • Floor 5: You recite Bible verses until you are absolved of all Greed.

  • Floor 6: You go without food until you are absolved of all Gluttony.

  • Floor 7: Waiting room for the "test of faith". You simply stay here til you think all your Lust is gone.

  • Test of Faith: There's a gigantic wall of fire. You have to walk through it. The fire burns away all the sin you still had after going through Purgatory (and you if you missed too much).

  • You passed, you're on your way to Heaven.

SO, in summation, if you do everything else "right" after murdering the kid (convert, go to confession, carry out the full penance for the murder and every other sin you've ever committed then get anointed in oil and receive last rights before immediately dying) you would go to the third terrace of Purgatory and at least get to skip the waiting line, the Sisyphus challenge and having your eyes sewn shut.

Gonna spend an awful long time in that tear gas though...

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