Explain SMBC — the wiki for Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

This comic satirizes how religious teachings about prayer can draw arbitrary lines around what constitutes acceptable requests to God. A young girl named Susie prays, "Dear God, please punch Bobby in the face." A priest scolds her, saying God doesn't do things like that, so she apologizes.

Susie then revises her prayer to something far more violent: "Dear God, please pour boiling blood on Bobby's family." The priest responds approvingly with "Much better!" The joke is that the second prayer, despite being dramatically more horrific and targeting innocent family members, sounds more like the kind of wrathful divine punishment found in certain Old Testament passages. The comic pokes fun at the idea that framing violence in biblical language somehow makes it more theologically acceptable than a simple, direct request for physical harm.