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Welcome! Everything is fine. Just relax ... you're in The Good Place (& Christianity).

The Good Place is a TV show about what happens after death. It's also very funny and quite reflective at times, as well as a quirky introduction to philosophy. Here’s a brief introduction (minor spoilers for Season 1, Episode 1):

Ted Danson – as in Cheers and Becker – is Michael, architect of a small neighbourhood in the Good Place (heaven). When things start falling apart a woman named Eleanor Shellstrop suspects it is all because of her, since she has apparently been mistaken for someone else and doesn’t really belong in the Good Place. Eleanor shares her secret with her “soul mate” Chidi, an indecisive ethics professor, and asks him to teach her ethics so she can avoid being found out and can earn her place in the Good Place.

The rest of this blog contains major spoilers for seasons 1-4. You have been warned!

The Good Place brings up a lot of interesting issues: life after death, being a good person, ethics, identity, free will and lots more. This blog explores some of these concepts in the context of Christianity (from a position of believing the Bible is 100% reliable in what it says about God and eternity – not just 5%!).

Next up: the point system, or, how good do you have to be to get to heaven? And how many points do you lose for failing to disclose a camel’s illness as the seller of said camel?

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