prayer-2
Original: prayer-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (praying): Dear Satan, please bring us a vaccine for-
God (interrupting, in a yellow speech bubble): WHOA, hey, sorry, God here. You sure you wanna go with Satan?
Panel 2:
God: Bro, there is literally a pestilence upon the land. You got like billions of people praying every night for the health of loved ones and then WHAM - pestilence.
Panel 3:
God: Okay but you're gonna go with Satan? You're gonna spend infinite time in hell.
Panel 4:
Woman: Think of all the added people going to hell because they're committing all the sins born of poverty! If Satan comes through, I lose one infinity of time, but millions of infinities are spared!
Panel 5:
God: See this is EXACTLY why I made it so you can't add and subtract infinities.
Panel 6:
Woman: Would you PLEASE stop interrupting so I can pray to Satan!
Votey:
A small horned/devil-like figure says: I hear you, humanity, and I empathize.
Woman (praying): Dear Satan, please bring us a vaccine for-
God (interrupting, in a yellow speech bubble): WHOA, hey, sorry, God here. You sure you wanna go with Satan?
Panel 2:
God: Bro, there is literally a pestilence upon the land. You got like billions of people praying every night for the health of loved ones and then WHAM - pestilence.
Panel 3:
God: Okay but you're gonna go with Satan? You're gonna spend infinite time in hell.
Panel 4:
Woman: Think of all the added people going to hell because they're committing all the sins born of poverty! If Satan comes through, I lose one infinity of time, but millions of infinities are spared!
Panel 5:
God: See this is EXACTLY why I made it so you can't add and subtract infinities.
Panel 6:
Woman: Would you PLEASE stop interrupting so I can pray to Satan!
Votey:
A small horned/devil-like figure says: I hear you, humanity, and I empathize.
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. A woman with red hair kneels in prayer. She begins, "Dear Satan, please bring us a vaccine for-" but God interrupts from a yellow speech bubble: "WHOA, hey, sorry, God here. You sure you wanna go with Satan?" God argues his case: "Bro, there is literally a pestilence upon the land. You got like billions of people praying every night for the health of loved ones and then WHAM - pestilence." He warns, "Okay but you're gonna go with Satan? You're gonna spend infinite time in hell." The woman, now agitated and gesturing, replies: "Think of all the added people going to hell because they're committing all the sins born of poverty! If Satan comes through, I lose one infinity of time, but millions of infinities are spared!" God retorts, "See this is EXACTLY why I made it so you can't add and subtract infinities." Exasperated, the woman snaps, "Would you PLEASE stop interrupting so I can pray to Satan!" In the votey aftercomic, a small sketchy horned devil figure looks up and says, "I hear you, humanity, and I empathize."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.