Nicer Than Jesus?

"There is a kind of evangelical Christianity (and Christian ministry) today, popular among many bloggers and Christian authors and artists (musicians), for example, that seems to think that if Christians would just chill out and not be so judgmental that non-Christians (what the Bible calls 'the world') would find Christianity much more palatable and plausible. What then, do we make of Jesus himself saying, during his own ministry: "The world... hates Me because I keep telling it that its ways are evil"? (John 7:7)