The Good Place & Christianity

Michael: The Good Place is divided into distinct neighborhoods. Each one contains exactly 322 people who have been perfectly selected to blend together into a blissful harmonic balance. Eleanor: Do all the neighborhoods look like this? Michael: No, every neighborhood is unique. Some have warm weather, some cold. Some are cities, some farmland. But in each one, every blade of grass, every ladybug, every detail has been precisely designed and calibrated for its residents. Eleanor: There’s a lot of frozen yogurt places. Michael: Yeah. That’s the one thing we put in all the neighborhoods. People love frozen yogurt. I don’t know what to tell you. (Season 1, episode 1) People have all kinds of ideas about heaven. One idea is that heaven is perfectly tailored to each individual, and is a place where your every desire is fulfilled for eternity. In other words, the fantasy of a two year old: whatever you want, whenever you want it. Another image is that heaven is a boring plac

Jason: There’s something messed up with this place. We keep fighting with each other. None of the TVs get the NFL RedZone channel. My soul mate doesn’t even know who Blake Bortles is. I know this sounds crazy, but I think we’re in the Bad Place. Michael: Jason figured it out? Jason? This is a real low point. Yeah, this one hurts. (Season 2, episode 2) Tahani: I’m gonna miss these little perks when I’m down in the Bad Place, being forced to wear a knock-off handbag and drink tap water. Chidi: That’s what you think hell is?? (Season 1, episode 12) According to The Good Place , hell is a place demons torture bad people for eternity – and quite enjoy doing it. Michael’s original motivation for creating a fake Good Place was just to spice things up: Michael: The time has come to innovate. The human afterlife can be more fun. For us, obviously, not for the people we’re torturing. Who cares about those dummies? I present to you the perfect recipe for my proposed experiment.