re: #99 calochortus

I understand the sentiment, but this sort of thing always makes me a bit uncomfortable. As an atheist, I don’t believe in an afterlife to remove the sting of death. The implication that the victims are in a better place makes the murders less horrific.

I don’t believe in an afterlife either. But literal belief in this or that has little or nothing to do with the power of metaphor. I don’t need to believe or not believe in an afterlife to feel the force, the pain in fact, of what the cartoonist here is telling us.