ontological
Original: ontological on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A bishop in red and gold vestments, wearing a tall white mitre and holding a golden crosier (bishop's staff), speaks.
Bishop: "BY DEFINITION, GOD MUST BE THAT THAN WHICH NOTHING GREATER CAN BE CONCEIVED. FROM WHICH IT FOLLOWS THAT... THAT... OH BOY. WE'LL HAVE TO COVER THIS UP DEEP."
Caption (below panel): "Inadvertently, St. Anselm proves that God is nachos."
Votey:
A crude drawing of a yellow, roughly circular plate of nachos (a tortilla-chip / nacho shape with several small triangular chips/holes), outlined in a hand-drawn black square frame.
A bishop in red and gold vestments, wearing a tall white mitre and holding a golden crosier (bishop's staff), speaks.
Bishop: "BY DEFINITION, GOD MUST BE THAT THAN WHICH NOTHING GREATER CAN BE CONCEIVED. FROM WHICH IT FOLLOWS THAT... THAT... OH BOY. WE'LL HAVE TO COVER THIS UP DEEP."
Caption (below panel): "Inadvertently, St. Anselm proves that God is nachos."
Votey:
A crude drawing of a yellow, roughly circular plate of nachos (a tortilla-chip / nacho shape with several small triangular chips/holes), outlined in a hand-drawn black square frame.
Alt text
Main comic: a single panel showing a Catholic bishop in red-and-gold vestments and a tall white mitre, holding a golden crosier. He says, "By definition, God must be that than which nothing greater can be conceived. From which it follows that... that... oh boy. We'll have to cover this up deep." The caption underneath reads: "Inadvertently, St. Anselm proves that God is nachos." The joke riffs on St. Anselm's ontological argument for God's existence, concluding absurdly that the greatest conceivable thing is nachos. Votey (aftercomic): a crudely hand-drawn picture, framed by a wobbly black square, of a round yellow plate of nachos dotted with small triangular chips.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.