ok so extremely unpopular opinion but uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i liked the comic
i think a very big part of the negative reactions from this come frome experiences with the good old crazy american evangelicals that were so popular back in the 70s through 90s, and it led people who had bad experiences with those cults to associate specific parts of just normal christian teachings with those cults, but honestly from the perspective of a non-american from a place where those sorts of sects are more uncommon (and usually rather hostile to catholics so they rarely get much spotlight) i dont really see anything of what minna wrote in the comic as a red herring for one of those cults, the comic itself imo reads more like babylon bee than like a chick tract (which i heard some people copare this to, so i was a little bit disappointed when the comic didnt have an evil pope bunny for me to laugh at), and the beliefs and ideas expressed in the afterword didnt (at least to me) seem in any way harmful or toxic or something that could be in any way associated in any way with the crazy evangelicals people think minna turned to. to me, it seemed more that something a catholic or a lutheran would say rather than someone from, say, the westboro baptist church, and honestly i think the core message there that might have alarmed people could have been the implied proselitism part where she talked about spreading Christ's words but proselitism is also a very big part of the doctrine of 99,9999999999% of christian branches so its not really fair to associate that with radical cults, and honestly her finding a spirituality, even if you disagree with it or even if you dont respect that at all shouldnt worry you about ssss's future, since from what she said she began feeling a pull towards christianity in august last year and fully converted around november last year, so she has put out quite a lot of pages after her conversion and the story hasnt yet taken a considerable turn (which is again another way of telling she probably isnt from an american-style radical sect since the big focus she puts on pagan scandinavian folklore would probably be seen as evil to those people, considering they thought tolkien (also known as the most catholic guy on england since thomas moore) was satanic for taking inspiration from norse mythology for his books), so really, even if you cant like the author anymore i wouldn't worry about ssss being changed by this
as an aside and since i already committed to not using caps this is going to be very hard to read i'm sorry, i do think there's a decent message to take from the comic even if you're not christian or religious at all, since the central theme here is about freedom of expression and the people or groups of people that think they have the moral authority to curtail it for the masses' own good, more of a "dont play god" message than anything, and frankly could work (tho in my biased opinion not quite as well) if the bible in that comic was switched for the rigveda, the quran, thus spoke zarathustra, etc
so uh yea rant over
tl;dr: i liked the comic but if u didnt its ok dont worry about it
