Koan #34: Christ is Not Nice

Let it always be noted and remembered, for it is often strategically denied by some Believers while simultaneously being tactically abused by certain Unbelievers, that the Lord Jesus Christ is indeed not a friendly, refined, polite, mannerly, agreeable, nice, accommodating, tolerant or pleasing individual! He is a loving individual, and this is a distinction and difference of the highest order, changing the entire manner to how He should and must be understood. For truly, a loving man may still rage against the injustice caused by others, while the polite and mannerly and nice may not wish to show such raw emotion, no matter what the circumstances. And a loving man may bloodily sacrifice himself for others, while the refined and friendly and tolerant may not consider such a thing as necessary. And indeed, a loving man may accept, however painfully, that there are those that want nothing to do with him nor do they wish to be in his presence no matter what he does, and thus, respecting their desires, the loving man keeps himself separate from them, whereas the accommodating, agreeable and pleasing man may not do so, no matter how much tension and bitterness and eventual hatred such an accommodation would bring festering forth. Let no Believer, therefore, ascribe to Christ any feeble attributes that he does not hold, but let them proclaim the radical love that he is, and practice it faithfully.