Zach Hadel had a Christian awakening in his 20s and has been boldface lying about the beliefs espoused in Smiling Friends when confronted with accusations that it's generally predicated upon abusive, normative Christian doctrine. Here's the bottom line:
>Season 1, Episode 1 - "Desmond's Big Day Out" - Pride
-Starting off with what might be kind of a reach, but Desmond can be interpreted as a character who's entertaining his nihilistic/suicidal streak as a lark to disguise his ego and get his kicks by disturbing people around him, kind of like a satire on the self-absorbed fat nerd stereotype who thinks he's deeper and more mischievous than he really is. This is credited by the ending where he becomes happy and successful killing household pests while the final gag of the episode is Pim continuing to suffer the existential crisis Desmond gave him. Completely overlooking any way the sin of pride can be linked to gay pride
-Alan's crucifixion is a direct reference to Christ's crucifixion, making Bliblies nonbelievers and Desmond an unintentional career killer of non-Christians, which are being portrayed as animalistic and hive-minded
>Season 1, Episode 2 - "Mr. Frog" - Greed
-Frog is a rich celebrity who has milled a fortune off of an audience he doesn't care about and has become a hedonist drug addict, which is shown to be slowly corrupting him and ruining his career and exacerbated when Charlie gives him painkillers and attempts to put him on The Tonight Show - he avoids doom by murdering an anti-anti-woke stereotype and is reformed
>Season 1, Episode 3 - "Shrimp's Odyssey" - Sloth
-Lol this fucking autistic virgin nerd and his MMOs designed specifically to exploit him and mindhack his attention span. GO TO WORK!
-Smormu = test of free will and anyone who votes for him goes to hell (e.g having him run up to him and do the snake charmer chant forever while the announcer mocks you)
Smiling Friends Is Christian Propaganda: The Final Worm
