Demons of Stupidity

Scott Adams writes “Dilbert.” It is some funny stuff. Last week he did a series in which there is a new worker named “Jesus” which is pronounced as “hay-soos.” Like clockwork, several Christians wrote in to complain. Below is one of the emails Scott Adams received. Please pay attention to the response.

Hello! Mr. Adams,
Mr. Adams I just want to tell you that I don’t really appreciate you making a mockery of my faith. I used to think that your comic strip was funny, now I think it is very disgusting and not funny at all. I have found your last comics strips in reference to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ very offensive. There is a place for everything and there is a place for humor and humor has its limits, especially when it comes to those things and issues that some of us hold as sacred. I will pray for you and that some day you may come to know Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Otherwise you will find Him some day as your judge, and He will justly judge you for your sins and whether or not you believe in Hell that day you will believe and you will repent when you see Him face to face, but then it will be too late. Repent from your wicked ways and stop making fun of my Savior.
Thanks for your time.
Pastor (name deleted),
California

The Response from Scott Adams:
Thank you for taking time out from feeding the poor to complain about comic strips. I know Jesus would have played it the same way.
Scott

Steady

Last night some friends and I watched a movie about the holocaust. It traced a young boy's trek from freedom to captivity to freedom in about two hours. The wonder of cinema was able to condense several years into several minutes. Similarly, on my bookshelves I have a number of biographies. In just several hundred pages, they condense decades of life. Television, too, routinely summarizes hours, days, weeks, months and years into bite size segments.

Life is more like a river than a waterfall. It can meander from place to place. In some places it deepens and in other places it is shallow. There are rapids here and calm pools there. No matter what its momentary course, no matter what its state, it flows. It moves steadily in one direction. Like a well-lived life, it moves steadily, day by day, in one good direction.