funny quote by a funny man

"As they explained Jesus, I wondered if maybe his mom, Mary, had actually given Jesus a lobotomy. The Jesus I was told about could easily have passed for one of the kids in the ghetto daycares near my house who were pumped so full of NyQuil they would sit quietly and drool on themselves while watching cartoons until their moms came to pick them up after work. The Jesus I was introduced to was always mild mannered, endlessly patient, open, affirming, tolerant, only spoke kind words, never got angry, and ran from conflict. Or, to butcher the prophet Isaiah, "a bruised reed of self-esteem he would not break". Worse still this weird Jesus seemed to really like sheep. I never saw a picture of him with a baseball glove or with other kids, but I did see him with a lot of sheep. Sometimes they made us glue cotton balls to construction paper in an effort to make our own sheep so that we could apparently be as weird as Jesus. In short, Jesus seemed downright freakish, definitely not the kind of guy you'd want on your baseball team because he would never have the guts to slide hard into second base to break up a double play or throw inside to a batter to back him off the plate . Rather he would prefer to pick flowers in the outfield and daydream about fluffy sheep while praying for his enemies and keeping his emotions under control"- Mark Driscoll  Vintage Jesus 

This book is pretty interesting. It talks about cultural caricatures of Jesus in art and teaching and also compares these ideas with the historical Jesus and the Biblical Jesus.