If Jesus, Then Aliens/Playing With

Basic Trope: First Type: A character who is of religious faith will believe in anything supernatural. Second Type: A character who is an atheist/agnostic/skeptic won't believe in anything supernatural.
 * Straight:
 * First Type: Alice is religious and generally believes in supernatural phenomena like aliens and UFOs.
 * Second Type: Bob is non-religious, and refuses to believe in anything supernatural.
 * Exaggerated:
 * First Type: Alice believes in absolutely anything at face value.
 * Second Type: Bob is an uber-skeptic and refuses to believe absolutely anything without a mountain of proof.
 * Downplayed:
 * First Type: Alice is religious, and is somewhat open to the possibility of supernatural phenomena.
 * Second Type: Bob is non-religious and believes various paranormal stories, but refuses to take a side on whether it's supernatural or mundane without more proof.
 * Justified: Both types boil down to this: "If God (doesn't) exist(s), what else does(n't) exist(s)?"
 * Inverted:
 * First Type: Alice believes in a higher power, but steadfastly refuses to believe in supernatural phenomena.
 * Second Type: Bob is willing to believe in anything except the existence of a higher power.
 * Subverted:
 * First Type: When someone approaches Alice with a ghost story, she brushes them off with "that's a bunch of bunk".
 * Second Type: When someone approaches Bob with a ghost story, he listens in and offers his own story.
 * Double Subverted:
 * First Type: ...But she was in front of her church friends and was putting on airs. When she's approached in private, she actively listens and offers her own story.
 * Second Type: At the end of his ghost story, Bob laughs and says "you didn't think I was being serious, did you?"
 * Parodied: God appears and says aliens don't exist. Neither of the two believes Him: Alice doesn't believe there can't be aliens, and Bob doesn't believe it was God.
 * Zig Zagged: One character switches from Alice's position to Bob's and back in different scenes.
 * Averted: Both characters have certain things they believe and don't believe.
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 * Lampshaded: ???
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 * Defied: ???
 * Discussed: ???
 * Conversed: ???

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