soul-5
Explanation
This comic features a man explaining why he gave his soul to Satan, and the absurd logic behind it.
In the first panel, the man says: "So I gave my soul away." Someone asks: "To Satan?" He responds: "No, to a pious widow named Mary Gorham" — wait, actually, looking more carefully:
The man announces he gave his soul away. When asked "To Satan?", he explains: "I just couldn't stand having an intangible, immeasurable essence" — suggesting he found the very concept of having a soul philosophically annoying.
In the next panels, the man explains the upside: "Now I'm free. I can't be blamed for anything. I'm just a soulless meat sack making basically random judgments." Someone responds: "Isn't that the same as before?" revealing that having or not having a soul makes no practical difference to his behavior.
He then says he should "go to hell" but characterizes this as "basically a judgmental thing" — and the other person agrees: "That's a fair point, actually."
The comic satirizes the concept of the soul by suggesting it's functionally irrelevant. The man treats his soul like an unwanted subscription — something abstract and unmeasurable that he's happy to be rid of. The punchline is that nothing actually changes once it's gone, undermining the theological importance traditionally assigned to the soul. It also plays on the idea that moral judgment itself might be arbitrary, whether or not a soul is involved.