Sentences with phrase «pious fraud»
The phrase "pious fraud" refers to a deceptive or dishonest action that is done with supposedly good intentions or in the name of religion. It is when someone lies or manipulates others while pretending to be devout or morally upright. Full definition
Actually, this is the most common heard piece of pious fraud spread by zealots like you.
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To make Whitehead a «Christian» in this sense may require further pious fraud.
It was also an age of «pious fraud».
Her More is a thorough hypocrite and a pious fraud, a misogynist husband and a sadistic torturer.
If one examines it objectively there is no way to escape the conclusion that it is a pious fraud.
... When the Christians assembled in their Temple at Jerusalem to celebrate Easter, the chaplains of the Church, making use of a pious fraud, greased the chain of iron that held the lamp over the Tomb with oil of balsam; and... when the Arab officer sealed up the door which led to the Tomb, they applied a match, and the fire descended immediately to the wick of the lamp and lighted it.
So Christ came to earth and was crucified, and man was set free, but the bargain turned out to be a «pious fraud» on God's part, for by his resurrection from Sheol Christ escaped from Satan after all.
Or is it a forgery in a long line of «pious frauds?»
John Locke excoriated this pious fraud in his Letter Concerning Toleration: