Fair Trade Blogging?

I actually forced myself to watch a bit of the trainwreck called "The Book of Daniel" on TV the other night -- it's a scurvy dawg of a show, which will probably die a quick death unless Christians give it too much publicity by ranting about how it's offensive to Christianity, creating a "controversy" about it, and thereby driving the ratings up (there's no such thing as "bad press", after all).

Forget about whether or not this lame TV show is offensive to Christianity. Bob Hyatt (bob.blog) had a great quote recently, about how Jesus is offensive to Christianity.

Here's a snippet:

At its heart, the Gospel is a message with something to offend everyone. For the postmoderns, the Gospel proclaims an authority and a truth -- a King. For the moderns, the Gospel proclaims a God who can be experienced, not just theorized about propositionally -- a Friend. For the liberals, the Gospel and God's Kingdom give us a system of morality that will undoubtedly seem "regressive". For the conservatives, the place of the poor in the Kingdom and in God's heart is a huge challenge.

This may not count as a fair trade for Bob's insightful quote, but earlier today, I emailed him this picture, after hearing Bob lament how he's been permanently banned from certain websites.

Apparently, this picture caused mild existential freakage for Bob, but he posted it on his blog anyway.