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b'Our culture often speaks out of both sides of its mouth, acknowledging in popular proverbs that \\u201cnothing is certain but death and taxes,\\u201d or, as my homiletics professor often said, \\u201cthe mortality rate is 100%\\u201d while still commonly insisting that we all have a certainty of life after death (either in reward or punishment). Progressives began to be dismissive of the belief in a burning hell but, for the most part, have held onto the security blanket of belief in a wonderful eternal existence after death. The sad fact is that there is no evidence to support this belief and it amounts to a denigration of the value of the only life that we actually know that we have. Perhaps it is time for spiritual communities to accept mortality as a fact and stop trying to push our hopes off into an imaginary future.'