"outright pious Fraud" - what is this? What I find interesting is how people find sin and moral guilt is so difficult to face, nihilists deny it has any value except it is not a belief system, it is inbuilt into our dna and things we care about.
I read a guy who felt he had been brain washed into believing moral behaviour was good, and immoral behaviour was not, yet he no longer accepted this so he could not understand why his emotions and heart still refused to not respond. What he was unaware of we are totally integrated social beings and morality is about our biological sense of fairness. You can do experiments with children and they know what is fair and what is not and care deeply about it. Religion and morality reflect what we already are, which is why it occurs in all cultures and places people exist, rather than religion and morality is externally imposed. But this kind of world is hard to except if one wants a world with no meaning because then guilt should evaporate and disappear. The thing with behavioural biology is it is governed by what works not what is individually desired.
So I would say as Proverbs described evil people as fools with no understanding or strength are 100% correct and unfortunately for people who hate this reality, their hatred defines its reality against which they can do nothing. If it was not unmoveable the hatred would not be so strong.
The biggest lie is religion has created morality, so reject God and you will then be immoral. The opposite is true, accept our own personal morality and guilt and God will help us become fulfilled and find real meaning in His love and reality. God bless you
While an interesting story - but it had nothing to do with Pious Fraud .. one example is given in detail in my previous post- but there are many other examples one can find.. just in the Pious Fraud Category. How about the removal of entire books ... The "Word of God" one day .. not the word of God the next. ..
Then we have books which are still Canon - which were "Written by Paul - Peter and so on" but were not written by the Author that the work purports itself to be written by - known as Pseudepigrapha aka - Pious Fraud"
but never mind this .. Why would one even want to argue for a "The Bible is Gods Every Word" position.