Christians Should Be Nice

"Love doesn't mean being nice all the time!" OK, but surely it means being nice, like, most of the time?

Last week, Promise Keepers CEO Ken Harrison said that Americans Christians have “taught a Jesus that’s an idol that’s not the real Jesus.” So far so good, but then:

“We’ve taught a Jesus that says to love means being nice to everybody. Jesus wasn’t very nice. He wasn’t very nice most of the time.” Oh, come on.

Harrison said this on something called “Real America’s Voice,” where he also declared that “one of the biggest contributors to the effeminization of men is the Church.” In this framework, being nice is effeminate and being effeminate is weak and being weak is bad, which is why today’s men are so bad. 

There are a lot of problems with this line of logic but one big one is that it assumes an America currently overrun by a plague of effusively nice guys.