I think the fact that a divine being would willingly come to this dead world to suffer a terrible death for us proves Jesus is nice. However, as King of Heaven he wears the crown.
That makes Him the “guy” who decides..Well the domain of His thought is Universal and death is an illusion to God, who knows he is spirit and not flesh..so people dying in the end times is for their own good, a lesson learned...we must believe and seek him with all our beings, so we are not His enemy....
I don’t think the author means “he’s not nice” in the way you think he does.
I was raised in Christianity, and I fell for Jesus as the image of a saintly hippie. Saintly hippies don’t know anything, aren’t relevant and are more than a little annoying.
When I went back and re-read the Gospels as an adult, I saw much of what this author is saying. Jesus is not a wimp, nor a doormat. He also is extremely wise and doesn’t put with any crap from naysayers.
I had this failed assumption that Jesus was like a well-meaning politician. A nice guy with great ideas, but He would never measure up to the forces rallied against those ideas—He just wasn’t tough enough. I know I couldn’t have been alone in those thoughts, there have to be others, and this article is trying to smack ‘em upside their heads.