History Quotes / CorruptChurch

!!RealLife
->"How it may be lawful and fitting to use falsehood as a medicine, and for the benefit of those who want to be deceived."
-->--'''Eusebius of Caesarea''' (c. AD 260 or 265 – 339 or 340), bishop to Emperor Constantine

->''Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.''
-->--Seneca The Younger (4BCE to 65CE)

->''In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for [[TheQuisling protection to his own]].''
-->--'''UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson'''

->''O kind missionary, O compassionate missionary, leave China! Come home and convert these Christians.''
-->--'''Creator/MarkTwain''', ''The United States of Lyncherdom''

->''Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.''
-->--'''Creator/HPLovecraft''' in a letter to Creator/RobertEHoward

->"We will kill one third of all Serbs. We will deport another third, and the rest of them will be forced to convert to Catholicism."
-->--'''Minister of ducation Mile Budak''' (July 1941)

->''After one of his political speeches in Texas, a group of Baptist elders approached him and offered him a fine church and house in Houston if he would become their minister. He thanked them and said that the offer was very fine indeed but he couldn't take it as he didn't believe in God. "Come now, Mr. Gore, that's not the proposition we made you, is it?"''
-->--'''Creator/GoreVidal''' on his grandfather, ''Palimpsest''

->"In {{UsefulNotes/Italy}}, there is not a single [[TheMafia Mafioso]] who isn't religious... Unfortunately. The church is embroiled in it. But regrettably not everyone in the church is convinced that opposition to the Mafia is necessary."
-->--'''Padre Nino Fasullo'''

->"Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity."

->''Faith moves mountains...of inventory.''

"Born Again"''\\

->'''Poverty''': The vow taken by members of the Roman Catholic Church (you know them, right? Biggest land-owners on the planet?)''\\

->'''Blue Fang Demon''': Your God's love is not unconditional. He does not love us. Snd he does not love you.\\

''Choice number 6:'' None of the above, it's a trick question.\\
'''Priest:''' Oh, I'm so sorry. He is in fact an all-expense paid trip to Brazil. You have not seen the light, my son... but we shall open your eyes... even if we must shut them first...''

->'''Priest:''''' Is God a jar of strawberry preserves, a size 12 sneaker, a footlong Hogie, an all-expense paid trip to Brazil, or a [[Series/ThePriceIsRight NEWWW CARRRRR!?]]''\\
'''Choice number 6:''' None of the above, it's a trick question.\\
'''Priest:''''' Oh, I'm so sorry. He is in fact an all-expense paid trip to Brazil. You have not seen the light, my son... but we shall open your eyes... even if we must shut them first...''

!!{{Film}} - Live-action

!!!Literature/TheBible

->Someone might argue, "If my falsehood enhances God's truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?" Why not say -- as we are being slanderously reported as saying and as some claim that we say -- "Let us do evil that good may result?" Their condemnation is deserved.

!!!Film - Live-action
->IT'S NOT A FUCKIN' BOOK! It's a weapon. A weapon aimed right at the hearts and minds of the weak and the desperate. It will give us control of them. If we want to rule more than one small fuckin' town, we have to have it. People will come from all over, they'll do exactly what I tell 'em if the words are from the book. It's happened before and it'll happen again. All we need is that book.

!!!Literature

->Men have been enslaving each other since they invented gods to forgive themselves for it.

->Once upon a time, Christianity created its own enemy and called it Satanism. Everything was a matter of good and evil, plain and simple, black and white . . . but this is a gray world. The two extremes, Christ and Satan, finally merged in the Christian militia. There was always a powerful attraction there; now it's been fulfilled. Christ and Anti-Christ in one. Only took two thousand years.

!!!Live-action TV
->God's blessing has its price.

!!!Music
->''"So you need a new car?\\

From a Christian cow"''

->''And here’s to the churches of Mississippi''\\
''Where the cross, once made of silver, now is caked with rust''\\
''And the Sunday morning sermons pander to their lust''\\
''The fallen face of Jesus is choking in the dust''\\
''Heaven only knows in which God they can trust''

->''He's got twenty million dollars''\\
''In his Heavenly Bank Account''\\
''All from those chumps who was''\\
''"Born Again"''\\
''He's got seven limousines''\\
''And a private plane''\\
''All for the use of his''\\
''Special friends''

!!!Tabletop games
->We have no need for military might. We wield two of the sharpest swords ever forged: Faith in our left hand, Wealth in our right.

!!!Theatre

!!!Video games

->People ''want'' to be told how to act. Most people are idiots, and that's exactly who my teachings appeal to!

'''Choice number 6:''' None of the above, it's a trick question.
->'''Priest:''''' Oh, I'm so sorry. He is in fact an all-expense paid trip to Brazil. You have not seen the light, my son... but we shall open your eyes... even if we must shut them first...''

!!!Web original
->'''Poverty''': The vow taken by members of the Roman Catholic Church (you know them, right? Biggest land-owners on the planet?)''
->'''syn''': ''bullshit''

!!!Western animation
-> '''Bishop''': God is in all his Churches.''
-> '''Blue Fang Demon''': Your God's love is not unconditional. He does not love us... and he does not love you.''
-> '''Bishop''': I have done His bidding, my life work is in his name.''
-> '''Blue Fang Demon''': Your life's work makes Him puke.''

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!!!RealLife
->How it may be lawful and fitting to use falsehood as a medicine, and for the benefit of those who want to be deceived.

->Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

->In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for [[TheQuisling protection to his own]].

->O kind missionary, O compassionate missionary, leave China! Come home and convert these Christians.

->We will kill one third of all Serbs. We will deport another third, and the rest of them will be forced to convert to Catholicism.

->After one of his political speeches in Texas, a group of Baptist elders approached him and offered him a fine church and house in Houston if he would become their minister. He thanked them and said that the offer was very fine indeed but he couldn't take it as he didn't believe in God. "Come now, Mr. Gore, that's not the proposition we made you, is it?"
-->--'''Creator/GoreVidal''' on Sen. T.P. Gore, ''Palimpsest''

->"Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity."
-->--'''Creator/HPLovecraft''', in a letter to Creator/RobertEHoward

->Poverty'': The vow taken by members of the Roman Catholic Church (you know them, right? Biggest land-owners on the planet?)''
->syn: ''bullshit''

!!Western animation
-> Bishop'': God is in all his Churches.''
-> Blue Fang Demon'': Your God's love is not unconditional. He does not love us... and he does not love you.''
-> Bishop'': I have done His bidding, my life work is in his name.''
-> Blue Fang Demon'': Your life's work makes Him puke.''

-->-- ''John 2:16''

-->--''Romans 3:7--8''

!!!Fiction

-->-- '''[[Literature/TheBible John 2:16]]'''

->''"So you need a new car?\\
Let your fingers take a walk\\
Through the business guide\\
For the 'Born Again' flock\\
You'll be keeping all your money\\
In the Kingdom now\\
And you'll only drink milk\\
From a Christian cow"''
-->--'''Music/SteveTaylor''', "Guilt By Association"

->'''Gabrielle''': Has anyone talked to the Bishop?\\
'''Countesss''': Nowadays, only money talks to the Bishop.
-->--''The Madwoman of Chaillot''

->IT'S NOT A FUCKIN' BOOK! It's a weapon. A weapon aimed right at the hearts and minds of the weak and the desperate. It will give us control of them. If we want to rule more than one small fuckin' town, we have to have it. People will come from all over, they'll do exactly what I tell 'em if the words are from the book. It's happened before and it'll happen again. All we need is that book.
-->--'''Carnegie''', ''Film/TheBookOfEli''

->People ''want'' to be told how to act. Most people are idiots, and that's exactly who my teachings appeal to!
-->--'''Pastor Richards''', ''Pressing Issues'' (Radio/GTARadio)

->''Faith moves mountains...of inventory.''
-->--'''[[Literature/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineRelaunch Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #104]]'''

->'''Elizabeth:''' Fifty percent of everything people earn here goes directly to Comstock as a tithe.\\
'''Booker:''' I gotta get ''me'' a job in the prophet business.
-->--''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite''

->We have no need for military might. We wield two of the sharpest swords ever forged: Faith in our left hand, Wealth in our right.
-->--'''Vuliev of the Ghost Council''', FlavorText for [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=97219 Castigate]], ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''

->'''Priest:''''' Is God a jar of strawberry preserves, a size 12 sneaker, a footlong Hogie, an all-expense paid trip to Brazil, or a [[Series/ThePriceIsRight NEWWW CARRRRR!?]]''\\
'''Choice number 6:''' None of the above, it's a trick question.
->'''Priest:''''' Oh, I'm so sorry. He is in fact an all-expense paid trip to Brazil. You have not seen the light, my son... but we shall open your eyes... even if we must shut them first...''
-->-- ''{{VideoGame/Harvester}} ''

->''"...the chief difference between [[SinisterMinister myself]] and other ecclesiastics is that I serve the Devil wittingly and of my own free will, while they do the same in sanctimonious blindness."''
-->--'''Bishop Azéderac''', "The Holiness of Azéderac", Creator/ClarkAshtonSmith

!!!RealLife

-->--'''Crearor/HPLovecraft''', in a letter to Creator/RobertEHoward

->'''Priest:''''' Is God a jar of strawberry preserves, a size 12 sneaker, a footlong Hogie, an all-expense paid trip to Brazil, or a [[ThePriceIsRight NEWWW CARRRRR!?]]''\\

->'''Priest:''''' Heretic!''

-->--'''Vuliev of the Ghost Council''', FlavorText for [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=97219 Castigate]], ''MagicTheGathering''

-->-- '''[[UsefulNotes/ThePope Rodrigo Borgia]]''', ''TheBorgias''

-->--'''''UrbanDictionary'''''

-->-- '''[[ThePope Rodrigo Borgia]]''', ''TheBorgias''

->When you say ‘radical right’ today, I think of these moneymaking ventures by fellows like Pat Robertson and others who are trying to take the Republican Party away from the Republican Party, and make a religious organization out of it. If that ever happens, kiss politics goodbye.
-->--Sen. '''Barry Goldwater''' (R-AZ)

->Chick-fil-A is a fried chicken restaurant chain whose business it is, apparently, to [[SmallNameBigEgo dictate what the United States policy on same-sex marriage should be]]. After public statements on the subject in the summer of 2012, the company became a rallying point for conservatives opposed to marriage equality. And they sold a lot of chicken in the bargain. The irony of making statements about homosexuals based on Leviticus 18:22 & 20:13, while selling food [[{{Hypocrite}} in violation of Leviticus 3:17]], was lost on the company and their patrons.
-->--'''''Wiki/RationalWiki'''''

->Benny Hinn is a televangelist, faith healer and sith lord of apparently staggering popularity and influence, whose main goal seems to be to [[KlingonPromotion wait for Billy Graham to die]] so that he can take over what he deems to be the leadership of evangelical fundamentalism in the US, for God has shown him that Graham’s death will mark the beginning of a huge American revival of religious fervor (meaning, of course, that you should start sending the money you send to Graham, to him instead).... In 2001, {{Creator/HBO}}’s ''America Undercover'' tried to follow up 5 of the people Hinn had allegedly healed at a particular crusade, but when HBO checked back a year later, none of the parishioners had been healed at all (two had died). Hinn, of course, blamed the dismal results on HBO. In reality, his assurance that his victims are well after his faith healing is rather likely to lead his victims to abort the treatments and medication schemes they are already using, so it is definitely not an innocent matter of innocuous faith. {{Creator/CBC}} later exposed Hinn’s tendency to use his church’s money for private purposes, and for [[{{Bouncer}} employing security guards disguised as men from the church]] to keep ''genuinely'' sick followers away from the stage so he doesn’t need to deal with them (or risk being exposed to something that he cannot heal). Even his efforts to combat the “twin evils” of Islam and secularism seem primarily to be [[MonsterProtectionRacket schemes to make money.]]
-->--''[[http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2013/10/767-benny-hinn.html Encyclopedia of American Loons]]''