Plot hole: Doug Forcett is shown to have lived a completely selfless life but did not have enough points to go to the Good Place and will be sent to the Bad Place. Mindy St Clare was never sent to the Good Place or the Bad Place but instead to the Medium Place because of one selfless act her entire life. She still would not have as many points as Doug as it was determined that before her charitable act, she was a corporate lawyer who only cared about money and cocaine.
Other mistake: When Michael is looking at the 2009 report about Doug giving his Grandmother flowers, the net total for the action is -4 points. But the totals are off. The positives add up to about 73 points, but just the negatives that we see are 162, making the net total at least -89. While the header implies only the "top" points are known, the numbers start tailing off drastically after the first few, so there's no way there are enough not mentioned to make up the difference, otherwise they'd be classified as "top" too.
Answer: While the show does explore life after death, the show creators intentionally avoided using many religious terms and beliefs, such as heaven, hell, or God. While one could draw parallels of the Good Place and the Bad Place to heaven and hell, in the show that's not what they're meant to be.
Bishop73
Thank you. It just means, to me, they're atheists.
Rob245
Not sure you can infer them being atheists just because they do not use the terms, "Heaven" and "Hell." Those are mostly traditional Christian concepts. Many religions have different beliefs of what the afterlife is.
raywest ★
Well you couldn't really call them atheist because atheists don't believe in any type of afterlife or any deities. The "good place" and "bad place" are merely broader terms that could include most belief systems.
immortal eskimo