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The creator of these comics is a Christian, with the message of them being a Christian message/allegory.

The message here is that if you disconnect yourself from God and try to live independent from God, you lose your purpose and/or are helpless to fulfill your “true purpose” (which, to a Christian, “true purpose” = serving/following God).

That said: I’d strongly suggest that people stop posting these comics and giving this guy attention. They’re meant for Christians and are not really relevant to people outside of that.

EDIT: I made a (regrettable) visit to the website to satisfy my curiosity and found the title & description:

Absolute Freedom – God (in control of all things) gives us freedom to choose what to do, but we don’t get to choose the outcome.

Make of that what you will.

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35 points

They’re also shit cartoons.

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20 points

they never land, like there’s a missing piece of communication to them all

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15 points

All “Christian” media is like that, their music, movies, comics, everything. There’s just something missing.

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17 points

DIVINE LINK SEVERED

YOU ARE A FLESH AUTOMATON

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6 points

ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL

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15 points
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6 points

Explaining & clowning on religious media/“art” in any form sounds good to me. 👍

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13 points

The puppeteer can make you cut your own ties at any time and leave you in a ditch 'cause you were kept a dependent weakling. The author is accidentally promoting self reliance, because that interpretation is not allowed to him or his public. Stupid comics.

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11 points

I guess that explains the way they watermarked it.

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55 points

Some people shouldn’t be cartoonists, or they should lean hard into absurdism.

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12 points

Christians and being absurd do tend to go together.

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5 points

2 Samuel 3:14 - the bible verse that best gauges how seriously the book should be taken

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2 points

Right up there with the magic bears.

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41 points

Why do these keep getting posted? The original artist is not a good guy.

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20 points

Mockery mostly

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40 points

They trying to say that you are dependent on the control of others and incapable of functioning on your own free will? Because fuck that.

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2 points

Worse, it’s an allegory for losing your faith in God. I visited the website and it’s full of comics with similar messages. If you value your sanity, I suggest you stay away from the website.

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its the bicycle fall meme in another theme

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39 points

With some potentially gross political implications.

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28 points

That was my initial read of the comic. “Nooo, don’t cut off the puppetmasters, we need them because we have no agency of our own”

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