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"I have not come to bring peace, but with a sword... to set father against son, brother against brother, etc. etc." - Jesus, Paraphrased.

Yet he is billed as either "Love" and/or the "Prince of Peace" in the same document.

thunderlips11 says

Paraphrased.

The quotation you are looking for is:

"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
And a man's foes [shall be] they of his own household."

In fairness, the context seems probably to imply a metaphorical sword, cleaving family relationships but not bodies.

If Jesus lived as an actual person (which Paul seems not to have believed), then Mark 3:21 describes him as what we would call schizophrenic: "And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself." Back in those days, religious people prone to believe in unseen spirits believed that the symptoms of schizophrenia resulted from demons, i.e. demonic possession. That made sense to them because schizophrenia manifests usually around age 20, when around 1% of the population start hearing voices and suffering delusions of grandeur and persecution. The character Legion ("for we are many") seems clearly to be suffering from schizophrenia. Schizophrenics can be otherwise brilliant (e.g. John Nash), somewhat like the autistic idiot savant character in Rain Man had extraordinary counting ability. Most people recognize that schizophrenics are clearly delusional, but the early Christians seem to have made a different choice: to present schizophrenic delusions as fact. That turned out to be much more lucrative than any other approach (until PhRMA came along and turned anti-psychotic drugs into a booming industry, including ads on TV for suckers who had been fooled into buying toxic SSRI placebos; when the SSRIs don't work, it means the patient must be psychotic and need aripiprazole). Monetizing mental illness goes back a long way, from faith healers casting out demons to the current Vatican priests selling exorcisms and Obamneycare mandating prepayment for toxic and disproved pills.