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Infinite

Original: Infinite on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Transcript

Panel 1:
Man (kneeling, hands clasped in prayer at the edge of a dark cliff): God, if you're infinitely powerful and infinitely good, how come bad things happen to good people?

Panel 2:
Man: Is preventing suffering good?
God (offscreen voice from a speech bubble): Yes.

Panel 3:
Man: Am I capable of causing infinite suffering?
God (offscreen voice): Yes.

Panel 4:
Man: It follows that merely by doing nothing I do infinite good.

Panel 5:
God (offscreen voice): Don't know if I love you doing a logical end-run around the deepest question in theology.

Panel 6:
God (offscreen voice): Wait till you find out who invented logic!

Votey:
A small figure stands in the dark looking up.
Figure: Satan...?
God (large speech bubble): WHO...?

Alt text

A six-panel black-and-white-style SMBC comic with colored backgrounds. A man kneels in prayer at the edge of a dark cliff and asks God, 'If you're infinitely powerful and infinitely good, how come bad things happen to good people?' God's voice (shown only as speech bubbles) answers his follow-up questions: yes, preventing suffering is good, and yes, the man is capable of causing infinite suffering. The man triumphantly concludes, 'It follows that merely by doing nothing I do infinite good.' God replies, 'Don't know if I love you doing a logical end-run around the deepest question in theology,' then adds the punchline: 'Wait till you find out who invented logic!' Votey (bonus panel): the small figure stands alone in the dark and asks, 'Satan...?' A huge speech bubble from above answers simply, 'WHO...?', implying God doesn't even recognize the name.

Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.