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Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert comic strip who accepted Christ as his ‘savior,’ dies at 68

While admitting that he remained an unbeliever, Scott Adams wrote before his death that the risk-reward calculation (of accepting Jesus) looked attractive.
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(LifeSiteNews) — Scott Adams, the creator of the famous “Dilbert” comic strip, died Tuesday at age 68 from prostate cancer.

Adams shared in a final message written on January 1 to be published posthumously that he is “not a believer.” However, at the behest of Christians, he nevertheless accepted Jesus Christ as his “Lord and Savior.”


“The part about me not being a believer should be quickly resolved if I wake up in heaven. I won’t need any more convincing after that. And I hope I am still qualified for entry,” Adams wrote.

His effort to accept Christ despite his unbelief was an acceptance of Pascal’s Wager: “I have to admit the risk-reward calculation (of accepting Christ) looks attractive,” Adams said.

Adams announced January 4 on his daily livestream, Real Coffee with Scott Adams, “You’re going to hear for the first time today that it is my plan to convert.”


“So I still have time, but my understanding is you’re never too late. And on top of that, any skepticism I have about reality would certainly be instantly answered if I wake up in heaven.”

Addressing the Christians who have been trying to convert him, he continued, “I am now convinced that the risk-reward is completely smart. If it turns out that there’s nothing there, I’ve lost nothing. But I’ve respected your wishes, and I like doing that,” Adams said. “If it turns out there is something there, and the Christian model is the closest to it, I win.”

“So with your permission, I promise you that I will convert. But I probably won’t spend that much time in that phase, so don’t expect it to happen today, OK? But argument made, argument accepted.”

The author and podcaster previously described himself as agnostic. In 2001, he published a novella, God’s Debris, described as a thought experiment postulating that God “annihilated” Himself in the Big Bang, and then existed only as the matter of the universe. The sequel novel, The Religion War, is about an effort to solve a war between fundamentalist Christians and Muslims and includes a challenge to common conceptions of God.

Adams is best known for writing and illustrating the iconic, satirical “Dilbert” comic strip about the absurdities of office life. The comic was cancelled by its distributor and independent newspapers after Adams called black Americans who disagreed with the statement “It’s OK to be white” a “hate group.” The Economist and other outlets falsely claimed Adams called black Americans in general a “hate group.” 

While Adams has described himself as “further left than Bernie Sanders,” in 2015, he predicted, after watching the first Republican presidential primary debate, that Donald Trump would win the nomination and the presidency. He wrote about the lessons of Trump’s victory in his 2017 book “Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don’t Matter.”

Trump openly mourned Adams’ death, praising the writer for “liking” and “respecting” him when “it wasn’t fashionable to do so.”


After Adams discovered in May 2025 that he had stage four cancer, he reportedly indicated to The Hill that he would commit assisted suicide that summer through the use of aid-in-dying drugs available to the terminally ill in California.

However, he changed his mind after realizing how painful assisted suicide can be, as reported by National Review. Adams shared his realization in an interview with Dr. Drew Pinsky and Greg Gutfeld that waiting for the drugs to kill someone can be agonizing itself.

When his father was dying in 2013, Adams wished a “slow, horrible death” on those who have actively opposed assisted suicide. In his blog, “I Hope My Father Dies Soon,” Adams wrote:

Let me say this next part as clearly as I can. If you’re a politician who has ever voted against doctor-assisted suicide, or you would vote against it in the future, I hate your (f-word) guts and I would like you to die a long, horrible death. I would be happy to kill you personally and watch you bleed out. I won’t do that, because I fear the consequences. But I’d enjoy it, because you mother(f-word) are responsible for torturing my father …

I’m OK with any citizen who opposes doctor-assisted suicide on moral or practical grounds. But if you have acted on that thought, such as basing a vote on it, I would like you to die a slow, horrible death too. You and the government are accomplices in the torturing of my father, and there’s a good chance you’ll someday be accomplices in torturing me to death too.

In his final message, Adams listed books he had published and highlighted their positive impact, noting that they had even “changed lives.” This has given him a sense of meaning that is “impossible to describe,” he wrote.

The Dilbert creator has received glowing eulogies since his death, especially from conservatives, for his work, his intellect and his courage.

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