Christians have no sense of humor

At last, the Christians have some cartoons to get themselves all worked up about. Maybe they were feeling left out? Scott Adams, the author of Dilbert, wrote a blog post today responding to the Christians who have gotten their panties in a knot about the latest series of Dilbert comics, in which a new employee named Jesus (”Hay-soos”) claims to be the “saver of databases”, recruits 12 people to work on a project with him, is betrayed by one of his co-workers for 40 shares of stock, is fired, and then returns as a consultant to save everyone’s pensions. Sound familiar?

Adams says he wrote the strips months ago and didn’t stop to think about when they were going to run. Oops. He says it wasn’t his intention at all to “make fun of” Christianity. And I believe him — you know why? For one thing, the guy’s no atheist, although most of the people writing hate mail to him could be forgiven for not knowing that, having never read his blog. And for another, the strips were actually funny. They may be the only Dilbert comics I’ve ever read that I actually found amusing. But they’re not anything worse (or better, for that matter) than an affectionate parody. Come on, people. Don’t you have anything better to do with your time?

Tags: Christianity