My guess is that one reason things are the way that they are on these shores because people no longer believe in accountability to a final judgment on the soul. And they are right to say that they have a justified belief that the proposition as they recite it is false in the manner in which they say that it is false. But the reality of final judgment, which is only partially expressed by determination and negation in our varied understanding of the event and reduction of it to language, is nonetheless sufficiently true that they would amend their lives, if they understood.
Relatedly, there is some obligation on the fellow who actually tries the locked doors to the stairway to a better life. If most never even try, there is some obligation vis a vis the certain knowledge acquired, and more, the encouragement to keep trying the doors. Else, we're in Plato's cave sans Plato.