confess-2
Explanation
This comic takes place in a confessional booth, where a priest asks a man if he has anything to confess. The man cheerfully says "Nah!" and then launches into a philosophical argument: his soul is immaterial, right? By definition, his material body cannot interact with it. Therefore, any sins committed by the body cannot harm the soul. He reasons that if the soul is truly immaterial, it cannot even know what the body is doing, so the body is free to "go absolutely hog wild."
He concludes this is "proof of God's love" -- God made the soul immaterial specifically so the body could do whatever it wants without spiritual consequence. In the final panel, the priest asks why the man came to his church, and the man replies: "Starting a new religion. Need disciples." The priest immediately says, "I'm in."
The humor lies in the man weaponizing the mind-body dualism problem -- a genuine philosophical puzzle in theology -- to construct a loophole for unlimited sinning. Cartesian dualism, the idea that mind and body are fundamentally separate substances, has long posed a challenge for theologians: if the soul is truly non-physical, how does it interact with the physical body? The man takes this problem to its logical extreme, arguing that a non-interactive soul means moral impunity for the body.
The priest's immediate conversion is the best part of the punchline. Rather than refuting the argument, the priest -- presumably someone well-versed in theological reasoning -- finds it so compelling (or perhaps so conveniently self-serving) that he is ready to abandon his own religion on the spot. This satirizes the idea that religious authorities might be just as susceptible to motivated reasoning as anyone else, especially when the conclusion is "you can do whatever you want."