the-power-of-prayer
Original: the-power-of-prayer on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Boy (praying, eyes closed): Dear Lord, my teacher, Ms. Stratton, is very ill. Could you cancel whatever plan you had and personally select violent all phages and pre-empt the fundamental mechanisms of causality itself in order to make her well?
Panel 2:
Boy (continuing): Or, if that seems improbable -- dare I say, absurd -- please ignore the half-hearted prayer of a young boy under duress.
Panel 3:
Boy (eyes open, deadpan): There? Happy?
Boy: From now on, only silent prayers.
Votey:
A man's face with a thought/speech bubble: In fact, no praying at all!
Boy (praying, eyes closed): Dear Lord, my teacher, Ms. Stratton, is very ill. Could you cancel whatever plan you had and personally select violent all phages and pre-empt the fundamental mechanisms of causality itself in order to make her well?
Panel 2:
Boy (continuing): Or, if that seems improbable -- dare I say, absurd -- please ignore the half-hearted prayer of a young boy under duress.
Panel 3:
Boy (eyes open, deadpan): There? Happy?
Boy: From now on, only silent prayers.
Votey:
A man's face with a thought/speech bubble: In fact, no praying at all!
Alt text
A three-panel comic. In the first two panels, a young boy prays with his eyes closed and hands clasped: he asks God to cancel any existing plans and personally override the fundamental mechanisms of causality to cure his very ill teacher, Ms. Stratton -- then immediately offers a sarcastic escape clause, telling God that if that seems too absurd, to please just ignore the half-hearted prayer of a young boy under duress. In the third panel he opens his eyes, deadpan, and snaps 'There? Happy? From now on, only silent prayers.' -- as though responding to a parent forcing him to pray aloud. Votey: a close-up of a stern adult man's face with a bubble declaring 'In fact, no praying at all!', escalating the boy's rebellion into a flat refusal.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.