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Explanation
This comic satirizes how people interact with religious and philosophical texts, particularly in the context of online culture wars and identity politics.
A character is reading a religious or philosophical book and complaining about it: "The reason he keeps his daughter's boyfriend living like away were meant to care" -- paraphrasing some passage about moral obligations. Another person asks why he reads it if he finds it so objectionable.
The reader responds with increasingly revealing justifications: he's not reading it as a "religious fundamentalist or whatever" but is treating it as useful guidance. He claims other people are "making it up" or "twisting" the text. He insists "you want to blame in a post-religion, post-meaning society looking for a... looking for a purpose."
The other character observes that this is exactly the behavior of someone who has made the book "part of their in-group identity" -- the reader is doing exactly what he accuses others of doing: using a text not for its actual content but as a tribal marker and identity signifier.
The final punchline has the reader, apparently a social media figure, credited with being "remarkably self-aware for such a looking moron," and revealed to be selling books or courses based on this very dynamic. The comic lampoons how online commentators build careers by performing critical engagement with texts while actually using them as tools for building an audience and in-group identity -- the very thing they claim to critique.