The hard right always had a problem with Jesus, the peacenik hippie, preaching love and forgiveness. The Deutsche Christen in Nazi Germany turned Jesus into a muscle-bound blond God who kicked Jewish butt. Today, right-wing Christianism has something much, much milder, but still with plenty of testosterone:
"What we’re saying is that … we’ve been taught the loving guy, the beautiful guy … When we walk into a church, we see ferns. We’re not used to that. We want something that shows the masculine side as well," [Brad] Stine said.
Stine founded GodMen, some kind of follow-up to Promise Keepers. It sounds like a homing signal for every closet case in the evangelical movement. Do they lift weights as well?
The Dish 