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


Use of the phrase
The Oxford English Dictionary reports the phrase is first known to have been used in English in 1678. was particularly fond of the phrase, using it often in his monumental and controversial work The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in which he criticized the likelihood of some of the and miracles of the early church.

William W. Howells wrote that know that their tricks are impostures, but that all who studied them agree that they really believe in their power to deal with spirits. According to Howells, their main purpose is an honest one and they believe that this justifies the means of hoodwinking their followers in minor technical matters.William Howells, 1962. The Heathens: Primitive Man and his Religions New York City: National Museum of American History [1] in Robert S. Ellwood Civilized Shamans: Sacred Biography and Founders of New Religious Movements, in New Religions in a Postmodern World edited by and Reender Kranenborg (Studies in New Religions Aarhus University Press) 2003


Thomas Jefferson
wrote to a friend and doctor in 1807:


Isaac Newton
In 's dissertation, An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture, he blames the "Roman Church" for many abuses in the world, accusing it of "pious frauds".


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