Juvenile theodicy gets dark really, really quickly. That’s because kids don’t feel constrained by the mental walls that we adults gradually grow around our minds. Wherever there is darkness or light, children will enter unafraid.
The child’s eulogy has terrifying implications. Jennika’s ultimate destiny is not truly knowable, but we can speculate in horror. She is in a better place, which is likely unending darkness. That means that the present life is worse than eternal nothingness. Does this mean that we are now in a hell dimension? Let’s plumb the depths of truth with Ellen Woodbury’s Pizza Cake Comics.