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Pious fraud (Latin: pia fraus) is used to describe fraud in religion or medicine. A pious fraud can be counterfeiting a miracle or falsely attributing a sacred text to a biblical figure due to the belief that the "end justifies the means", in this case the end of increasing faith by whatever means available.

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Pious fraud

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Pious fraud (Latin: pia fraus) is used to describe fraud in religion or medicine. A pious fraud can be counterfeiting a miracle or falsely attributing...

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Pia Fraus

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Tallinn, Estonia, formed in 1998. "Pia Fraus" is a Latin saying, meaning "pious fraud" or "small lie". Current Kristel Eplik (vocals) Eve Komp (vocals, synth)...

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Pious fiction

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Great Depression as pious fictions. Look up pious fiction in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Morality play Myth Noble lie Pious fraud Borras, Judit, Jewish...

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Kelpie

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have been a water horse rather than a kelpie, and the tale "obviously a pious fraud to keep children from wandering on Sundays". Kelpie myths usually describe...

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Religious fraud

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religion, e.g. false claims to being kosher or tax fraud. A specific form of religious fraud is pious fraud (Latin: pia fraus), whereby one employs lies and/or...

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Tartuffe

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under the influence of Tartuffe, a pious fraud (and a vagrant prior to Orgon's help). Tartuffe pretends to be pious and to speak with divine authority...

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Holy Fire

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volume of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: This pious fraud, first devised in the ninth century, was devoutly cherished by the Latin...

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The Philobiblon

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devised a remedy by which to entice the wanton minds of men by a kind of pious fraud, the delicate Minerva secretly lurking beneath the mask of pleasure."...

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Ovid

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concept drawn from the Metamorphoses is the idea of the white lie or pious fraud: "pia mendacia fraude". Six books in elegiacs survive of this second...

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Dan Vogel

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of a Prophet. Vogel argues in the biography that Joseph Smith was a pious fraud—that Smith essentially invented his religious claims for what he believed...

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Inoculation

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on 15 July 2021. Retrieved 27 May 2023. Wujastyk, Dominik (2001). "`A Pious Fraud': The Indian Claims for Pre-Jennerian Smallpox Vaccination". In G. J...

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Variolation

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original on 2017-11-07. Retrieved 2009-11-06. Wujastyk, Dominik (2001). "`A Pious Fraud': The Indian Claims for Pre-Jennerian Smallpox Vaccination". In G. J...

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Battle of Ourique

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as fact until Alexandre Herculano reexamined the event, judging it a "pious fraud", in his investigation in the middle of the 19th century. Christianity...

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Archaeological forgery

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intention is to create "proof" for religious history, it is considered pious fraud. Investigators of archaeological forgery rely on the tools of archaeology...

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Lothar Malskat

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Art & Antiques Magazine. 2012-02-16. Keats, Jonathon (February 2012). "Pious Fraud". Art & Antiques. "Frescoes on the Wall at St. Mary's Church". Getty...

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An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture

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blames "the Roman church" for many abuses in the world and accuses it of "pious frauds". He adds that "the more learned and quick-sighted men, as Luther, Erasmus...

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1955 in art

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1955 in fine arts of the Soviet Union Keats, Jonathon (February 2012). "Pious Fraud". Art & Antiques. Archived from the original on 2014-12-03. Retrieved...

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Golden Charter of Bern

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monastery. Monasteries, at that time, were masters of the pia fraus, the "pious fraud" of falsifying documents to match a dead benefactor's supposed intent...

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Johannine Comma

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first quoted and perhaps introduced by Priscillian (a.d. 380) as a pious fraud to convince doubters of the doctrine of the Trinity." Another complementary...

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Royal touch

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Family now on the Throne despise such childish Delusions, such little pious Frauds, to prove their Divine Right to the Crown. They act upon noble Principles;...

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Jesus bloodline

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planted in Glastonbury. Historians generally regard these legends as "pious frauds" produced during the Middle Ages. In 2014, Simcha Jacobovici and fringe...

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