Faith conversion salvation witness framed the opening of WarRoom as Steve Bannon addressed Scott Adams’ reported conversion to Christianity while Adams faces terminal cancer. The discussion centered on Scripture, belief, and what salvation means at the end of life.
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This clip aired on January 5, 2026. Transcript begins below and may contain minor errors.
STEVE BANNON (HOST): At the end right there was Scott Adams, the cartoonist, social commentator, MAGA philosopher. Dave Brat joins us. I’ve got Glenn Story, Neil McCabe, Joe Allen, much more going on. We’ve got a lot of people to get through, a lot of stories to talk about and analyze in the next two hours.
First off, Scott. For those that don’t know it, Dave Brat, Scott Adams has terminal cancer. The thinking, or people around him, is that he only has a couple of weeks to live. Of course, he has been discussing his conversion to Christianity. Your thoughts, sir?
DAVE BRAT (GUEST): Yeah, well, our prayers go out to him. We certainly pray God’s grace goes before him, with him, for the people listening. The cross next to Jesus made it most clear how you get to heaven. We know the evidence is because today Jesus said, "Today you’re going to be with me.”
That crook on the cross said, "I’m scum. I’m nothing.” He said, "This guy’s the Son of God.” That’s how you get into heaven. God sees your heart. We don’t decide. God knows the heart. But when you proclaim with your lips, "This is the Son of God.”
STEVE BANNON (HOST): Probably the two most profound, you know, it’s interesting in the New Testament, probably the two most profound witnesses are the criminal on the cross, at the very moment close to when Christ died, professing his faith, and then the Roman centurion who said, "You don’t need to come anywhere. Just say the word and he will be healed.” In all of Judea, Christ said he had not seen faith such as that. Amazing.
Later in the show, Scott Adams addressed the response to his announcement in a public statement.
Following the statement, Steve Bannon returned to discuss what comes with becoming a Christian and what Adams should expect moving forward with Dave Brat and Joe Allen.
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STEVE BANNON (HOST): I want the audience to know I’ve got my two WarRoom colleagues on here who both have master’s degrees in theology from two of the most prestigious schools of theology in the world. Boston University is where Joe Allen went, where Martin Luther King got his doctorate. And of course, Dave went to Princeton Theological.
Scott Adams, I think he should be informed that the one thing about becoming a Christian, it’s obviously between you and Christ and you and God. However, every Christian is going to have an opinion and a suggestion. We’ve got Protestants, Catholics, Orthodox, everything in between.
Dave Brat, you first, then Joe Allen. To Scott, welcoming him to the Christian faith, but about how everybody’s going to have an opinion.
DAVE BRAT (GUEST): Yeah, no. Scott, the biggest message from all Christians is we love you. Love God, love your neighbor. Number one, we all love you and we wish you the best.
It’s always the danger on social media. In seminary, you learn there’s a chasm between doing systematic theology and pastoral care. Our hearts go out to you. You’re going to be deluged by everyone with an opinion on everything.
But I’m glad your response was great. I’m talking to Jesus. If you’re talking to Jesus, that’s great. I love to hear that response. I’m sure you’re getting plenty of suggestions, but we all love you here at War Room and wish you the best.
I’ll always give you what I perceive is Jesus’ message as clearly as I can, but it’s only out of love.
STEVE BANNON (HOST): Joe Allen, advice to Scott Adams. It is between himself and Christ, but just being a Christian man, you’re going to get people’s opinions. It comes with the territory, does it not?
JOE ALLEN (GUEST): Well, yeah. You know, Steve, I’m definitely as heterodox as they come. So I’m not all that concerned about what Scott Adams believes so much as how his life is lived.
Chapter 25 of Matthew, the Parable of the Goats and the Lambs. For Scott Adams, his work has impacted so many people in so many positive ways. Whether that is enough to get to heaven or not is not up to me.
As for his beliefs, I don’t think this condemns him to hell. But he has one of the strangest beliefs as to what this universe is and where it came from and where it’s going.
He believes that we live in a simulation. He, like Elon Musk, believes, wholeheartedly or at least as much as one of his skeptical persuasion could, that this universe was created by some sort of mysterious beings before us. That it is a computer simulation and that we will go on to create many billions more here on Earth.
Whether or not that is something that God has a problem with, again, that’s between Scott and God. I have my own problems.
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