Protestors stood across the street from the Mormon Conference Center shouting Mormons are going to hell. That’s interesting, because from a Mormon perspective, we believe very few “go to hell”. We are much more generous with “going to heaven”. We aren’t going to say, “since you’re not a Mormon, you’re going to hell.” Mormons don’t believe that you go to hell because you’re of a different faith — Christian, Catholic, atheist, agnostic, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, etc. We believe in many kingdoms of glory. And many opportunities to accept Christ as your savior, even after death. You will never see us on a street corner shouting that you’re going to hell.

I love the Seinfeld episode when Elaine finds out her boyfriend, Puddy is a Christian. She confronts him,

Elaine: “Is it a problem that I’m not? (a Christian)”
Puddy: “not for me.”
Elaine: “Why not?”
Puddy: “Well I’m not the one going to hell.”

So, who goes to hell? The hell I presume we are all talking about is the burn in hell, fire and brimstone, outer darkness, where Lucifer rules kind-of-hell.

The other times we might refer to a “hell” are  1) right here on earth where some suffer misery for disobedience and, 2) the spirit world or spirit prison where the unrighteous, unrepentant dead await resurrection.But most of the time we speak of the one hell — the permanent place for the sons of perdition who suffer the second death — the place where the Devil and his angels go — outer darkness.

Mormons believe that only those who sin against the Holy Ghost will go to that hell where the Atonement has no power to cleanse the wicked. That is perdition — banishment from God’s presence and spiritual influence. These are only those who have known God, Christ and the Holy Ghost and have willfully turned aside from truth and light, while in the light, and sought to crucify the Lord anew, the sons of Perdition.
Joseph Smith declared, “You cannot save such persons; you cannot bring them to repentance” (TPJS, p. 358).

“Concerning whom I have said there is no forgiveness in this world nor in the world to come—Having denied the Holy Spirit after having received it, and having denied the Only Begotten Son of the Father, having crucified him unto themselves and put him to an open shame. These are they who shall go away into the lake of fire and brimstone, with the devil and his angels—And the only ones on whom the second death shall have any power;  Yea, verily, the only ones who shall not be redeemed in the due time of the Lord, after the sufferings of his wrath. “(D&C 76)