So I offer this personal apologia for those of you who perhaps are wondering why I quote Jesus so much. You might be saying, “Does it really matter?” or “Does it have to be in the Bible to be true?” Well, I quote Jesus because I still consider him to be the spiritual authority of the Western world, whether we follow him or not. He is always spot-on at the deeper levels and when we understand him in his own explosive context. One does not even need to believe in his divinity to realize that Jesus is seeing at a much higher level than most of us.