Don't Let the Good Life Pass You By - S3-E8
Plot hole: When Janet and Michael visit Doug Forcett, they realise his lifestyle, like drinking his own urine and only eating lentils and radishes, is not the "blueprint" they imagined. However, Janet should already have known all of these details, due to knowing everything about everyone in the universe, so a) she could have told Michael this without visiting Doug, and b) she should not have been learning all this for the first time herself.
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.
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