Which is why he mocks Christianity during Holy Week but is afraid to give his satirical attention to Islam. From Editor & Publisher:

NEW YORK Many e-mailers praised or criticized this week’s “Dilbert” sequence featuring an office worker named Jesus (pronounced Hay-Soos). The series “caused quite a stir,” cartoonist Scott Adams wrote in his blog today. “I drew those strips a few months ago, and in my typical careless way I didn’t realize they would be running around Easter time. Oops.” Adams — whose comic runs in more than 2,000 newspapers via United Media — reported that e-mails “were about evenly divided between people who are deeply offended and people who think it was my best work yet…. “My favorite rhetorical question, which I received an alarming number of times, was ‘Why don’t you mock Mohammed next? Huh? Why not?’ Well, aside from the blindingly obvious reason that I prefer life over death, I didn’t realize I was making fun of Christianity this week….”

A few thoughts:

1. He’s still drawing Dilbert? Those cartoons are new? Think Brett Favre, Adams.

2. I don’t really want to live in a world in which Christians behave like Muslims, which means that the cartoonists of the world will feel free to mock Christianity with impunity. Dilbert seems to me a small price to pay for civil society. I am content to let God’s business with Scott Adams be God’s.

3. If conservativism is, as I think it is, a consciousness of things lost, then we ought to note that the really interesting part of this story is that Holy Week barely registers in our secularized world. St. Patrick’s Day is an orgy of drunkenness and buffoonery, a sort of kelly-green echo of Mardi Gras, but Holy Week is barely a whisper. The rhythm of the liturgical calendar has been supplanted by the rigors of the commercial calendar. You’d think that the author of Dilbert would be sensitive to that.

Then again, I’d prefer that our academic semesters were designated “Hilary term,” “Michaelmas term,” and “Trinity term,” in the tradition of that famous formerly Christian university.