Dilbert and Jesus
A reader thinks the current Dilbert series involving a character named Jesus is offensive. Here is today's.
Are you intentionally trying to see how many Christians read the comics? The Dilbert series that is running right now is so offensive during this season of Lent that I do not have ample words to express my dismay. The new employee Jesus (Hey-Zeus) turning coffee into wine, and giving Wally his normal sight back left me incredulous this morning.
Just wait until the sermons start rolling into your offices. Freedom of speech does not excuse a person from freedom of good judgment. I guess I found enough words to express my dismay.
What is it with cartoonists and religion? I readily admit that I don't understand why people get worked up over what cartoonists draw. When you make your living making fun of authority and institutions as Scott Adams does, religion is fair game. But it is just a comic strip, and it's meant to evoke a response. This series seems to be in questionable taste, but I don't find it offensive. Do you?
(I don't find it all that funny, either, but I know that humor takes all kinds.)
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Posted on March 10, 2008 2:54 PM
Religious folk who get their knickers in a twist over a freakin' cartoon keep me out of church. I nearly spit my Orange juice across the table over the Jesus-Dilbert cartoon, but failed to realize others would take such umbrage. Oh well, at least they're tackling the tough issues...
Posted on March 11, 2008 12:28 AM
Two things I never joke about: a man's religion or his wife.
More people have died since the dawn of time in religious wars than from wars over any other issue. The free world is currently in a religious war with Islamic fundamentalists that want to kill all Christians and destroy our way of life forever.
Religion is probably the single most important motivating force in the world today.
Many people take their religion very seriously; jokes about it are in an area that begs treading lightly.
Posted on March 11, 2008 11:00 AM
The publisher just pulled Dilbert from our circ. 10K daily newspaper after a complaint from a reader. He intends to return it after the Jesus references end.
Posted on March 11, 2008 2:37 PM
I for one find this weeks dilbert hilarious and refreshing. I was tickled pink to see the cartoonist crossing that line into religion. Religion has had a long history of being taboo to discuss and debate which I think is silly. Religion like politics should be discussed... perhaps if people really are forced to mull over their "beliefs" they will have a better understanding of them instead of just blindly following them.
Posted on March 12, 2008 2:17 AM
I normally find Dilbert pretty funny, working as I do in cubicle-land. But as a Christian, I do find this series offensive. Mostly it's because I know that Adams is an atheist and occasionally makes fun of people of any faith, not just Christians, in his blog. So I'm pretty sure he's cutting down Christians in this series, and that's what I have a problem with.
Posted on March 12, 2008 7:44 AM
This Christian thinks that this week's series is funny and the best work Scott Adams has done in several years.
Posted on March 12, 2008 2:02 PM
Pull-eeze, people. "For 40 shares of stock?" I laughed out loud. It's so Wally, always playing the angles. And where's the appreciation for the real joke, which is how the mind-numbing grind of cubicle life deadens one to the miraculous? They CAN'T but trivialize this Story, because all sense of wonder has been leached out of them. It's not jokes about Jesus [pronounced "Jesus"], it's jokes about what "cubicle religion" would be if there were such a thing.
Posted on March 12, 2008 2:12 PM
According to the New Testament, Christ had a sense of humor. Why are some who profess to follow His teachings so angry all the time?
Posted on March 12, 2008 5:13 PM
I think if Jesus was to come back many of his "professed" followers would change their tune.
Jesus was a liberal anti establishment hippie that didnt have a job and wandered around with 12 other hippies professing their beliefs. So basically he was the complete opposite of what his followers have become.
Posted on March 12, 2008 11:28 PM
I think if Jesus was to come back many of his "professed" followers would kill him again.
Jesus was a liberal anti establishment hippie that didnt have a job and wandered around with 12 other hippies professing their beliefs. So basically he was the complete opposite of what his followers have become.
Posted on March 12, 2008 11:28 PM