According to artist Stephen Sawyer:

“I scarcely think Jesus could have overturned the tables of the money-lenders and driven them from the temple if he was a wimp. The model I use for my paintings is a surfer guy who’s built like a brick shithouse.”

A couple of his masterpieces:

Read more here.

Apparently it’s a trend. There are books like No More Christian Nice Guy and The Church Impotent: The Feminization of Christianity.

H/t Andrew Sullivan