On Reflection, This Is A Troll
The one thing that's kept bothering me about Scott Adams's "conversion" is that it's a little too much like a three-panel Dilbert strip. In panel 1, a "Christian" tells Dilbert the way to get to heaven is to say, "I accept Jesus Christ as my lord and savior". In panel 2, Dilbert, on his deathbed, says this and dies. In panel 3, there's a punch line -- I'm not sure what that would be, I'm not Scott Adams, but it would undercut the whole thing the "Christian" told him in panel 1. Actually, I don't think it would be too far from the sequence below. The context is Adams's revival of the Dilbert strip in March, 2023 as "Dilbert Reborn" following the cancellation of the original strip in the wake of harsh remarks he made about African-Americans that February. The strip's distributor severed ties with Adams, ending the comic's syndication, while his publisher canceled his upcoming next book and re...