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*** [[Fridge Brilliance]] here: if your afterlife is based on your beliefs, then Christianity IS true... along with every major and minor religion, cult, credence, for their respective believers.

** It's canon in D.C. comics that the after life is pretty much whatever the heck you think it is. That is, until hell comes to Earth and starts eating people, which happens about twice a year.

** ''[[~~The Sandman (Comic Book)|~~The Sandman]]'''s Death (who has become DC's official [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] [[Grim Reaper|of Death]], give or take a few badly attempted retcons) has mentioned in some sources that she has no idea where people go after she takes them.

** ''[[The Sandman]]'''s Death (who has become DC's official [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] [[Grim Reaper|of Death]], give or take a few badly attempted retcons) has mentioned in some sources that she has no idea where people go after she takes them.

*** During [[Brightest Day]], [[Lex Luthor]] asked Death why she did not interfere during [[Blackest Night]]. She answers that the [[Zombie Apocalypse]] did not really interest her.

** One DC comic character was questioned as to how he could be an atheist in a world where divinity is manifestedly real. His reply indicated that in a world with Superman, wizards, and multidimensional alien invasions, the mere presence of something supernatural did not prove it came from an all-powerful divinity.

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== Literature ==

* In Bernard Werber's ''Thanathonauts'' series, the world promptly forgets about the initially worldshaking discovery that there is indeed an afterlife (and that it is quite [[Celestial Bureaucracy|bureaucratic]] at that). In another series, little is expounded upon the ramification of a porcine direct relationships to humans.

* ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' author J.K. Rowling tried to save herself from having to create a [[Magic a Is Magic A|coherent magic system]] by having her viewpoint character tune out whenever theory is mentioned. It worked in the sense that she was able to avoid talking much about how magic actually works, but it does give the reader the impression that Harry is an incredibly apathetic child about this magical world that he suddenly finds himself living in. Also, she tends to delve back into magical theory towards the end, with the plot of the last book hinging on obscure magical theory.

* ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' author J.K. Rowling tried to save herself from having to create a [[Magic A Is Magic A|coherent magic system]] by having her viewpoint character tune out whenever theory is mentioned. It worked in the sense that she was able to avoid talking much about how magic actually works, but it does give the reader the impression that Harry is an incredibly apathetic child about this magical world that he suddenly finds himself living in. Also, she tends to delve back into magical theory towards the end, with the plot of the last book hinging on obscure magical theory.

** There is also the question about why there would need to be a whole aspect of "muggle studies" when a decent number of wizards and witches were born to muggle families. If there are muggle-born magic users, wouldn't they be able to just bring them a book on how cars work?

** It's even WORSE when Rowling hand waves things from the muggle side. We keep being told that humans just naturally refuse to think about magic at all because they are afraid that they would be labeled as crazy. But in the real world people look for UFOs and ghosts all the time and don't seem too worried. In fact we know that the leaders of the world ARE told about wizards, but are simply too apathetic to think about this potential threat/power source.