Comic #4300: anti-theodicy

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Panel 1: Girl: "Father, you know how the world is naturally good all the time?"
Priest: "Uh… sure?"

Panel 2: Girl: "But how can that be?"
Priest: "If good things always happen to good people, how do you explain the existence of a jerkass God?"

Panel 3: Priest: "I think you've got something backwards."
Priest: "Read the Bible!"

Panel 4: Girl: "Look at Eden! You have this perfect place until God sends a talking snake to ruin it!"
Girl: "Look at the Book of Job! You've got a guy with health, wealth, a family… so God steps in to ruin his life."

Panel 5: Girl: "Look at Sodom and Gomorrah! You have two whole cities having fun all the time, so God steps in and explodes them!"

Panel 6: Girl: "That's three kinds of good: innocent, honorable, hedonic. All of them occurred naturally, until God stepped in."

Panel 7: Girl: "So, if God created the universe, and is always running around messing stuff up, how is it that the universe is naturally so great until he intervenes?"
Girl: "Why didn't a jerkass God create a jerkass universe?"

Panel 8: Priest: "I think you've discovered a new branch of theology."
Priest: "See! Good things are happening all the time!"

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