Even so, preachers claim that after our short sojourn on earth, heaven is where we are intended to live. For example, Theodore Edgar Cardinal McCarrick, archbishop emeritus of Washington, D.C., was quoted as saying: “This life is not what we’re made for. We’re made for heaven.” Similarly, a former president of the U.S. National Association of Evangelicals was quoted as saying: “The purpose of life is to glorify God and go to heaven . . . ’cause heaven is our home.”

An Episcopalian pastor in Florida was quoted as saying: “We don’t know anything about heaven except that heaven is where God is.”