Scott Adams—yes, Scott Adams, the Dilbert creator—recently said something that has been circulating among Christians with a strange mix of hope and relief. It sounds like movement. It sounds like openness. It sounds like someone inching toward belief.
But when you actually listen to his words carefully, what you hear isn’t repentance at all. It’s sadness. Deep, quiet, self-protective sadness. The kind of sadness that misconstrues religious hedging for faith and calls it wisdom.
Here’s what Adams said, in his own words:
“Whenever…I talk about my own impending death, many of my Christian friends and Christian followers say to me, Scott, you still have time. You should convert to Christianity.
And I usually just let that sit because that’s not an argument I want to have. I’ve not been a believer. But I also have respect for any Christian who goes out of their way to try to convert me. Because how would I believe you believe your own religion if you’re not trying to convert me?”
That part is actually an indictment of modern Christianity. On this point, Adams is right. A Christianity that never speaks, never warns, never pleads, never confronts, is a Christianity that doesn’t believe its own claims. Silence only makes sense if hell isn’t real. If it is, then quiet “faith” is cruelty dressed up as politeness.
But then Adams continues:
