flood-4
Explanation
This comic revisits the Biblical story of the Great Flood, with God attempting to justify the morality of killing nearly all of humanity. A figure (likely meant to represent a theologian or philosopher) challenges God on the ethics of mass destruction, pointing out a series of logical problems.
The critic argues that you cannot render judgment on people based on their moral status only at the moment of death -- some people are good, some are bad, and their moral lives fluctuate. God can't judge people at a random instant. The critic further notes that the only way to target truly bad behavior is either to punish individuals specifically or to inflict massive collective punishment and hope the bad people are unlucky enough to be caught.
The comic then observes that if everyone goes to Heaven, it becomes a tedious afterlife of "standing around complimenting each other's outfits and hairstyles all day long," which is "frankly boring and degrading." God, exasperated by having the moral logic of the Flood systematically dismantled, responds with a frustrated outburst ("TURAAAAAAAAAA I'D SAY Y'ALL ARE SO CONFUSED DOWN THERE").
The joke operates on multiple levels: it's a critique of the theological problem of divine justice in the Flood narrative, it satirizes the idea that mass punishment can be morally coherent, and it lands on the punchline that God has no good answer and simply loses patience with the questioning.