History Main / EgocentricallyReligious

* Many Music/{{Blutengel}} lyrics present the vampires as abusive and murderous. In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0WwF_bVhZU Save Our Souls]], they finally start worrying about how bad their behavior is... However, they still care nothing for their victims, praying only for their own souls.

We lose ourselves, more and more\\

-->We fight against, everything and everyone\\

* In ''OurManInHavana'' [[ExtremeDoormat James]] is not religious, but swore to his wife to raise their daughter Milly as a devoted Catholic. Milly seems to take advantage of this trope--if she prays for some gift then James ''has'' to get it for her, because if Milly doesn't get what she prays for she might lose the faith.

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* In ''Literature/TheBible'',
** The book of Job is a straight 2A - the "false accusation" version of this trope - with TheDevil ending up in the role of Asshole Loser for accusing Job of being this.
** The group of pharisees in the New Testament were a type A, which makes it ironic when they didn't recognize said Lord when He appeared to them disapproving of their hypocrisy and arrogance.

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Compare HolierThanThou, HidingBehindReligion, TheFundamentalist, ImmatureHedonist and ThePresentsWereNeverFromSanta. Contrast PalsWithJesus and ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve for when the character ''actually'' has the benefit of divine favor.

* A sinister example in the ''MidsomerMurders'' episode ''Echoes Of The Dead'' where TheFundamentalist, hitherto regarded as a naive, gentle and innocent NobleBigot type at worst, turns out to be a SerialKiller. He tries to keep his act up and come across as a TragicVillain WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds, a [[TheMentallyDisturbed mentally disturbed]] type who honestly thought he was doing the right thing ("saving" sinners by killing them, so they stop sinning), but Barnaby pulls a ShutUpHannibal on him and calls him out as a narcissistic bastard who knows full well what he is doing and was just killing people he didn't like ForTheEvulz.

# ''Accusation'': Bob has this mindset about Alice, expecting her to have this mindset about God. Thus he steer the conversation in this direction, trying to expose Alice as having the "Spoiled Brat Of The Lord" kind of conceited "personal relationship with Jesus".\\

* In ''FiddlerOnTheRoof'', Tevye constantly and very self-consciously walks the thin line between a polite personal relationship with God and being Type 1(both A and B) of this trope. Ultimately he averts actually ''being'' this trope, but he ApologizesALot for it anyways.

** Though not as evident an example, Ned Flanders sometimes becomes this in his Christian overzeal, sometimes showing a condescending view of God's treatment towards others or praying for his good will for even minor things like winning a game of bowling.

* ''ChickTracts'' goes both ways on this issue, encouraging this mindset in evangelical Christians while frequently having AnAesop about how this mindset in people of ''other'' faiths open them up for demonic temptation.

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'''NoRealLifeExamplesPlease''': Not only would it be flame bait, but this is also one of those tropes that most people can agree is common in RealLife but [[YourMileageMayVary can't agree what cases are examples and what cases are not]].

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* One classic joke: A man is notified that his house is going to be flooded and he needs to get out of the house. He says "no I don't have to, God is going to take care of me." Then the flood starts to rise and a sheriff comes along and tells him to get out. The man says "no, God is going to save me." So, the floods continue to rise, and he climbs on top of the house. A boat comes along and he's told to climb into the boat. He says, "no, no, God is going to save me." Finally, a helicopter comes along and they lower the net to rescue him. The man says, "no, no, God is going to save me!" Well, the man drowns and goes to heaven. When he gets to heaven he says to God, "why didn't you save me?" God says, "I sent the sheriff, I sent a boat, I sent a helicopter, what more did you want me to do?"
* Another joke: A man is praying daily for God to let him win the lottery. Finally, after weeks of not winning, he asks God why he's not helping him. A booming voice replies from the heavens, "I'd love to, but you have to buy a lottery ticket."
* Two men, one a very devoutly religious man, and the other an atheist live next door to each other. The religious man, though is troubled, because he has a low-paying, unsatisfying job, his once-beautiful wife has let herself go, and his children are disrespectful underachievers. What ''really'' bothers him is that the atheist guy next door seems to have it all: a well-paying job that he enjoys, a beautiful wife, and well-behaved, high-achieving children. So the religious man falls to his knees, asking God why he is poor and unsatisfied even though he goes to church every week, reads Literature/TheBible, and prays several times daily, yet the man next door who never does ''any'' of these things has everything a man could want. And God replies, [[spoiler: "Because he doesn't bother me all the time!"]]
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* Played with in 7thHeaven at least once. In a later season, the dad (a reverend) has a heart attack and ends up being ready to give up not just his job but his entire faith in God as a result of having to confront his mortality like this. In the end, IIRC, his Rabbi friend has to come remind him that God doesn't really play favorites, even good and devout people will still encounter personal suffering.

* A GetBackHereBoss in ''AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'' continually rattles on how God's on his side throughout the whole chase/fight. If you actually do catch up to him and manage to hurl him over the side of a railing, there's a special cutscene where Ezio grabs him before he falls away. "Haha! You saved me! I told you God was on my side!" However, Ezio was only grabbing him to get the key from him before he fell away, and lets go right after.

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->''Why do you let bad things happen to me?''

* Two men, one a very devoutly religious man, and the other an atheist live next door to each other. The religious man, though is troubled, because he has a low-paying, unsatisfying job, his once-beautiful wife has let herself go, and his children are disrespectful underachievers. What ''really'' bothers him is that the atheist guy next door seems to have it all: a well-paying job that he enjoys, a beautiful wife, and well-behaved, high-achieving children. So the religious man falls to his knees, asking God why he is poor and unsatisfied even though he goes to church every week, reads TheBible, and prays several times daily, yet the man next door who never does ''any'' of these things has everything a man could want. And God replies, [[spoiler: "Because he doesn't bother me all the time!"]]

* In ''TheBible'',

* ''BattlestarGalactica'''s Gaius Baltar becomes a Type 1A after Head-Six convinces him he's an instrument of God.

That, uh, Jesus loves me, but he can't stand you

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