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* Anti-religious critics, skeptics and [[The Fundamentalist|atheist fundamentalists]] occasionally quote-mine the Scriptures of thevarious religions they're criticizing (the most popular targets arebeing the Bible and the Qu'ran). One of many examples is done with Luke 19:27 "But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them-bring them here and kill them in front of me." This verse is from the Parable of the Ten Minas, where Jesus explains what the coming of the Kingdom of God is like and the importance of making the most of life, with the verse in question representing God's future and final judgement for humanity with the killing an allegory of the eternal damnation of those who reject God. The quote mine is to treat the verse as a call to arms for Christians, despite it being the words of a fictional character in one of Jesus' parables. Numerous anti-religious outlets have based arguments around this specific quote mine, the most high profile example being Sam Harris, one of the founders of the New Atheist movement; Sam Harris later acknowledged and withdrew the argument, but not before numerous Christian [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENtlW-LEqu8 apologists] called the mistakeargument out.