I was at the Requium game this weekend, playing my Golden Dawn mystic, when the subject of Jesus came up. In a large group of people, I said:
“Jesus himself said, ‘Bring my enemies before me so I might kill them.'”
This caused quite a riot among some players. One even broke character and said, “Jesus never said that. Where did he say that?”
I said, in character, because I don’t break character, “I forget exactly where, but I think it is in Luke.”
Someone suggested I was making the quote up.
Well, here it is, black and white, clear as crystal.
In the parable of the talents, Jesus equates God with a master who is cruel to his servants (that’s us). He says that God takes what is not rightly his, and reaps what he didn’t sow. The parable ends with:
Luke 19:27
But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
This very line has been used on countless occassions to justify violence against Jews, Muslims, and other non-Christians. It’s an awful, terrible story where all the servants are punished because they don’t fear the Master (God/Jesus).
I wasn’t making it up.