Nonviolent Christians often cite the Sermon on the Mount as the most influential passage in their encounter with the radical Jesus. Rather than taking Jesus metaphorically, we take him at his word. But do we really? Sometimes it seems like we pick and choose what we keep as metaphor in the Sermon. I mean, gouging out our eyes or cutting off our hands remains a metaphor, right? I briefly address how I've been wrestling with Jesus's seeming hyperbole, and how I am discovering more and more how radical truths and reality are often only hyperbole to us because our darkened minds still can't grasp many divine truths.