2012-11-10
Explanation
This long-form comic features a conversation between a man and God, who appears as a glowing golden orb. The man asks why God does not show himself anymore, and God explains he did not mean to show himself in the first place. God reveals he was cursed so that whenever he had a stray violent thought, it came into being. He describes accidentally killing people with meteors, drowning everyone (a reference to Noah''s flood), and turning a lady into salt (a reference to Lot''s wife) -- all because of idle violent thoughts that were instantly made real. He says he created Hell by accident when he overheard Eve judging him, and a "crazy judgment scheme" popped into his head before he could stop it. Over time, it became like classical conditioning: every bad thought caused a catastrophe, so he stopped having bad thoughts entirely. But this was like "removing a big part of my brain" -- he became introspective, docile, and "kinda weird," so he left Earth and just watched. The man suggests that now that God is "fixed," he should come back, noting the problems on Earth (floods, famine, war, disease, fire). God briefly considers it, but then a demon appears and an explosion occurs. God says "Dammit" -- then quickly corrects himself: "No wait I mean darnit!" The final panel shows God dejected, saying "This sucks."
The comic offers a creative theological explanation for the problem of evil and divine absence. Rather than God being malevolent or indifferent, this version of God is essentially a being with cosmic powers who cannot control intrusive thoughts -- a deeply relatable human flaw scaled up to divine proportions. The biblical catastrophes (the Flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, Hell itself) are reframed as accidents caused by a deity who literally cannot think a violent thought without it happening. His solution -- suppressing all negative thoughts -- left him diminished and withdrawn, explaining why God seems absent from the modern world. The ending, where God accidentally conjures a demon and an explosion just by saying "dammit," proves the curse is still active and that his return to Earth would be disastrous.
The votey shows a man (possibly Jesus or a saint) saying "Yeah it''s weird for us too," acknowledging that the situation is strange from every perspective -- even those in the heavenly realm find God''s predicament awkward and uncomfortable.