2012-12-27

A five-panel SMBC comic in purple tones. A red-haired young man argues to a smiling dark-haired man in a suit: "God is supposed to be all-knowing, all-powerful and all-good, yet there is evil in the world. That's proof against God." The man replies, "Not at all." He then explains: "The 'problem of evil' is actually proof FOR God's existence. If all that stuff you said is true, it means that SOMEONE messed up this universe. Inanimate objects don't make mistakes. Therefore, whatever made this universe must be animate. Q.E.D. There is a God." The young man asks, "They pay you to come up with this stuff?" The man answers, "Yep." The young man says, "That's messed up," and the man triumphantly cries, "Hallelujah!" The joke is that the apologist treats divine carelessness as evidence for a deity, then gleefully embraces being called "messed up." Votey (a small black-and-white sketch): a roughly-drawn man says "I stepped in gum," and a large off-panel voice booms "TESTIFY!" — mocking the over-enthusiastic affirmation of a trivial statement.