History Main / EgocentricallyReligious

* Music/WeirdAlYankovic parodied this with "Amish Paradise", about an Amish man singing about how much he enjoys his simple life. He's mostly portrayed as a pretty decent upstanding person who happens to prefer the life of a "crazy Mennonite" but he admits at points that the reason he acts like a decent, forgiving person to everyone, even people who mock or assault him, is because he believes he'll be going to Heaven and will be laughing his head off while those people are burning in Hell.

** The ''Literature/BookOfJob'' is straight False Accusation, as {{Satan}} claims Job's faith is contingent on his prosperity. This is disproven when Job remains faithful in spite of his suffering, [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse though Satan doesn't stick around to the end to see how it all turns out.]]

* The ''ComicBook/Eternals2021'' has Ajak, who considers herself the most pious and loyal to their creators, the Celestials, but also feels an immense amount of entitlement to the same confidence from them. She jealously tries to murder anyone the Celestials contact instead of her and rationalizes that this must be their true intent since they act InMysteriousWays.

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* ''FanFic/ANorthernDragoness'' has King Baelor, who's obsessed with an interpretation of the Faith of the Seven that panders to his own SuicidalPacifism and rejection of sexuality, ignoring how important military strength and ensuring the continuation of the Targaryen lineage are to the future of Westeros, even when the Faith has the Warrior and the Mother amongst their number. Particularly, he infuriates his sister-wife Daena by refusing her the chance to become a mother and to seek revenge against Dorne for the death of her much more beloved brother Daeron the Young Dragon, to the point she spits back his "attempts" to bless her new marriage with Jonnel Stark.

* [[Literature/TheSagaOfTanyaTheEvil Adelheid von Schugel]] in ''FanFic/AYoungGirlsDelinquencyRecord''. In an unusual flavor, he's obsessed with the power of the divine/miracles and the ability to channel it through devotion and prayer. Particularly, his main wish is to reconstruct the monstrous [[ArtifactOfDoom Elenium Type-95 Computation Orb]], the single quad-core orb ever successfully produced and fielded. Combining his beliefs and desires makes him an unstable MadScientist perfectly willing to torture test subjects into insanity for a glimpse of the (unfortunately, very, very real) divine power that enabled him to construct the orb in the first place.

* Without a doubt, Frollo from ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}''. This trope defines his character and forms the essence of his VillainSong -- the chorus to "Hellfire" is the Confiteor, a Latin Catholic prayer of confession about taking responsibility for one's own sins, and are sung in ''direct and intentional'' contrast with what Frollo himself is singing. The part where they chant "Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa" ("through my fault, through my most grievous fault") is where he blames [[SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny his lust for Esmerelda on Esmerelda herself]], on the Devil, even on God, [[NeverMyFault everyone but himself]]; "Kyrie Eleison" ("Lord, have mercy") occurs just before he sings "[[IfICantHaveYou she will be mine or SHE WILL BURN!]]" The rest of his song is about how he is so much {{Holier|ThanThou}} and therefore better than the masses and everyone else, and near the end calls a guard an idiot before deciding to burn down Paris to find Esmerelda and either force her to be with him or destroy her if she refuses (and for "making" him sin). Once or twice in the film, [[HeelRealization it looks like even he thinks he's going too far]], but [[IgnoredEpiphany he ignores this]], as this would mean accepting that he is less than perfect and in the right. He very much proves right Clopin's assessment that he sees corruption everywhere...except within.

* ''Film/{{Sunshine}}'' has Pinbacker, the captain of the Ikarus 1 who goes insane during his mission. Convinced that God has spoken to him, Pinbacker believes that God has [[TheFatalist destined humanity to die]] and that humans have no right to restart the sun. Pinbacker sabotages the Ikarus 1 mission and almost stops the Ikarus 2 mission (nearly dooming humanity to extinction in the process) in the name of his deity.

* ''Film/{{Brimstone}}'': [[SinisterMinister The Reverend]] is an unbelievably disgusting and hypocritical one. He started out as a strict man proselytizing in the American West where he lived with his immigrant family. He begins lusting after his daughter Joanna--[[ParentalIncest later raping her]]--and also drives his wife Anna to suicide through [[DomesticAbuse his years-long abuse of her]], which he immediately dismisses as her being too weak and un-Christian. He spends the next several decades trying to track down Joanna to [[StalkerWithACrush make her his again]] and murdering a whole assortment of innocent people who simply got in his way, including children, all the while maintaining that ''she's'' the evil one [[SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny for driving him to sin]].
* A very dark example from "Preacher" Harry Powell in ''Film/TheNightOfTheHunter''. He's TheBluebeard, serially marrying women, killing them, and taking anything of value they have; he believes God heartily approves of his misogyny, greed, and homicidal tendencies.
-->'''Harry Powell:''' Well now, what's it to be, Lord? Another widow? How many has it been? Six? Twelve? I disremember. [''tipping his hat''] You say the word, Lord, I'm on my way... You always send me money to go forth and preach your Word. The widow with a little wad of bills hid away in a sugar bowl. Lord, I am ''tired''. Sometimes I wonder if you really understand. Not that You mind the killin's. Yore Book is ''full'' of killin's. But there are things you ''do'' hate, Lord: [[PsychologicalProjection perfume-smellin' things, lacy things, things with curly hair]].
* ''{{Film/Sweetwater}}'': Josiah's beliefs always center upon his own desires, the voices he hears backing this up.

* ''Series/FallingSkies'': Karen pulls this accusation on Lourdes in the pilot episode, taunting her for being a Christian by requesting that she pray forth a B2 Bomber for them. Lourdes soundly rebuffs this, thus turning the accusation back on Karen by showing it to be a false accusation.
* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'': Dr. Gaius Baltar becomes an example of Bratty Faith after Head-Six convinces him he's an instrument of God.

* A sinister example in the ''Series/MidsomerMurders'' episode "Echoes Of The Dead" where TheFundamentalist, hitherto regarded as a naïve, gentle, and innocent NobleBigot type at worst, turns out to be a SerialKiller. He tries to keep his act up and comes 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 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. However, he is still presented as a believer, just one who happened to [[AGodAmI think murder made him like God.]]

* Margaret Beaufort in the TV adaptation of Literature/TheCousinsWarSeries. Complicated by the fact that A. her faith is entirely genuine B. she uses it as her sole justification for her megalomaniac power fantasies, but also for very understandable desires (safety, justice for her family, her son not being murdered) in a world that abuses her and denies her these things because she's a woman C. In a world where even more outwardly sympathetic characters feel no remorse about harming rival families, she's very occasionally guilt-wracked and implores God to tell her if she should ShootTheDog to save her banished son and their future. He sends her no clear answers.
* Parodied in ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'' when Tommy is temporarily on a basketball team. He constantly questions his coach why they have to pray before every game, since helping a high school basketball team win would naturally fall really low on God's list of priorities. He caps this by pointing to the opposing team, who are also praying, asking if it gives God a conflict of interest.

* One ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch involved a religious woman constantly praying to Jesus for help on things, very petty and minor things, and Jesus himself arriving at her home to ask her to stop because he's okay with protecting her while she's driving and the like, but is it ''really'' necessary for her to give him the whole minute-to-minute list of things she's gonna do ''while'' she's driving that she wants him to help her with, and similar stuff like asking him to prevent her rice from getting overcooked? Naturally, his ranting leaves the poor woman in such hysterics that he has to tell her he's sorry and take it back.

* ''Series/CarolineInTheCity'': When Richard stands to win a lot of money in a competition, he earnestly thinks, "God, if you let me have this, I'll forgive you [[ButtMonkey everything]]!" [[spoiler: He wins the competition but is later disqualified on a technicality, possibly showing what God thinks of attempted guilt trips.]]
* Malcolm Reynolds from ''Series/{{Firefly}}''. Prior to the events of the series, he was a ReligiousBruiser who was fully convinced God was on the side of him and [[LaResistance the Independents]] as a whole. He wound up being ''quite'' disabused of that notion when [[TheEmpire the Alliance]] crushed the Independents' leadership, wiped out Mal's platoon in Serenity Valley, and won the war. In the present day, [[EvilStoleMyFaith he has lost all faith in God]] (or at least, any faith that God would help him) and while this is ostensibly because of [[WarIsHell what he experienced in the war]], it's made pretty clear that the ''real'' reason is that deep down he took the Alliance's victory as a personal betrayal from God.
* This is part of the psychopathy of Sicilian gangster Gyp Rosetti in ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire''. He was [[CulturallyReligious raised Catholic but makes no attempt to follow scripture]], being guilty of every crime and sin imaginable down to killing people on a whim. This doesn't stop him from visiting a church during Easter, yelling at, and insulting Jesus himself for being supposedly unfair.
* On ''Series/TheGuestBook'', a woman named Jill tries to make a weekend vacation with her son and his girlfriend, Lynn, a way to “baptize” her by drugging her and doing it in a hot tub due to her being an atheist. This inadvertently causes her to gain an infection on her foot from the hot tub they performed it in, which causes her to visit the hospital. However, she fully recovers it and decides to TurnToReligion, but this ultimately leads to Jill deciding to leave her faith, since she’s upset at how she thought God didn’t answer her prayers to cover her tracks, but that he answered Lynn’s to heal her, and for downright pettiness because she’s jealous of her good looks, despite her being a perfectly lovely looking older woman, and that Lynn’s life turned completely around after she repented, while her life hasn’t changed any better or worse throughout her life.

* In Music/{{Genesis|Band}}' song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EprQGmZ3Imw Jesus He Knows Me]]" from ''Music/WeCantDance'', the ScamReligion StrawHypocrite preacher caters to this mentality.

* Music/WeirdAlYankovic parodied this with "Amish Paradise", about an Amish man singing about how much he enjoys his simple life. He's mostly portrayed as a pretty decent upstanding person who happens to prefer the life of a "crazy Mennonite" but he admits at points that the reason he acts like a decent, forgiving person to everyone, even people who mock or assault him, is because he believes he'll be going to Heaven and will be laughing his head off while those people are burning in Hell.
* Music/JonathanCoulton's song "Gambler's Prayer" features a person like this. He's ''not'' praying to get over his gambling addiction.
-->Deal me good cards and I'll handle the math\\
We'll take their money while they take a bath\\
I'll show them my hand, you'll show them your wrath\\
Oh Lord, help me take money from my friends

* An infamous line from the Band Aid CharityMotivationSong "Do They Know It's Christmas?" admonishes us to think of [[WhiteMansBurden Africans suffering from famine]]: "''Tonight, thank God it's them instead of you.''" ([[Music/{{U2}} Bono]], who sang it in the original recording, has said that [[OldShame even at the time he disliked it]] and only recorded it under protest). It's been claimed that the UnfortunateImplications were a deliberate ploy, intending to shock people into realizing that attitude and work against it. In any event, the line was conspicuously removed when Band Aid released an updated version of the song 30 years later.

-->This cartoon world you’ve created \\
It’s like Disneyland \\
Get out your golden ticket \\

* The narrator of the old spiritual song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQt7XF_GGt8 "I Hear A Voice A-Prayin'"]] can be interpreted as ''really'' not liking people who take this approach. It [[DependingOnTheWriter really depends on the choir and the director]].

* ''Theatre/{{Hair}}'', "Manchester England":
-->I believe in God\\
And I believe that God believes in Claude, that's me
* From ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix'': "The Lees of Old Virginia", "They say that God in Heaven is everybody's God...but [He] leans a little on the side of The Lees...of Old Virginia"

* The Preacher, aka [[Franchise/LooneyTunes Foghorn Leghorn]] from ''Webcomic/ScoobAndShag''. His religious fervor stems from the fact that he believes God gave him a Ballyhoo for a higher purpose. He even seems to view his attacks on other Toons as proof he's more deserving of His gifts than the others.

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': Stan Smith is this at times, such as in "Dope & Faith", where he prayed to Jesus to let him win a raffle for a paddleboat. He claims his religion is the "foundation" of who he is, yet he more often than not uses this as an excuse to think that he's better than others (like in "Rapture's Delight") rather than live up to its teachings, and in "Daesong Heavy Industries", admitted that he's never actually ''read'' the Bible. Following a CrisisOfFaith after Steve's logic undermines all the book's stories, he reacts dismissively to the suggestion that he simply sees them as a set of instructional fables, detesting the idea of basing his character around some "fairy tales".

* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}},'' [[LovableAlphaBitch Quinn]] becomes a sympathetic version of Bratty Faith for an episode -- after avoiding an accident, she comes to believe she has a guardian angel who will help her with whatever she needs. After a HumiliationConga at a party, she believes that she's been abandoned. A conversation with Daria helps her realize that she's been overly reliant on her hypothetical angel.

* [[LightNovel/SagaOfTanyaTheEvil Adelheid von Schugel]] in ''FanFic/AYoungGirlsDelinquencyRecord''. In an unusual flavor, he's obsessed with the power of the divine/miracles and the ability to channel it through devotion and prayer. Particularly, his main wish is to reconstruct the monstrous [[ArtifactOfDoom Elenium Type-95 Computation Orb]], the single quad-core orb ever successfully produced and fielded. Combining his beliefs and desires makes him an unstable MadScientist perfectly willing to torture test subjects into insanity for a glimpse of the (unfortunately, very, very real) divine power that enabled him to construct the orb in the first place.

* Without a doubt, Frollo from ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}''. This trope defines his character and forms the essence of his VillainSong -- the chorus to "Hellfire" is the Confiteor, a Latin Catholic prayer of confession about taking responsibility for one's own sins, and are sung in ''direct and intentional'' contrast with what Frollo himself is singing. The part where they chant "Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa" ("through my fault, through my most grievous fault") is where he blames [[SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny his lust for Esmerelda on Esmerelda herself]], on the Devil, even on God, [[NeverMyFault everyone but himself]]; "Kyrie Eleison" ("Lord, have mercy") occurs just before he sings "[[IfICantHaveYou she will be mine or SHE WILL BURN!]]" The rest of his song is about how he is so much {{Holier|ThanThou}} and therefore better than the masses and everyone else, and near the end calls a guard an idiot before deciding to burn down Paris to find Esmerelda and either force her to be with him or destroy her if she refuses and for "making" him sin. Once or twice in the film, [[HeelRealization it looks like even he thinks he's going too far]], but [[IgnoredEpiphany he ignores this]], as this would mean accepting that he is less than perfect and in the right. He very much proves right Clopin's assessment that he sees corruption everywhere...except within.

*** His father Telamont Tanthul, meanwhile, continues to worship Shar- and make it mandatory for everyone under his rule- despite resenting her for corrupting his son, murdering his wife and plotting to annihilate all life everywhere including the Shadovar themselves. He does this purely because of the power Shar grants him and his people, to the despair of his favourite son Brennus, who comes to loath his brother and his goddess. Telamont cares about family and religion, but not as much as he does power and glory.

** In ''Literature/TheAvatarSeries'', the dark god Bane offers the mercenary Kelemvor a release from his family's lycanthropic curse- Kelemvor scoffs at this as he claims his family has ''always'' prayed to gods with no results, but Bane says he needed to have genuine faith in order for it to work; since Bane was [[PhysicalGod standing right in front of him]] at that very moment, Kel manages to pull it off and Bane literally rips the curse out of him since a modicum of his faith was genuine. Ironically, Kel would [[DeityOfHumanOrigin become a god himself]] about a decade later, becoming the God of Death and having to learn to keep ''his own'' ego in check for the sake of his new job.

* The ''Literature/ForgottenRealms'' novels gives a myriad of examples which, given it is a polytheistic setting where the gods have a whole range of personalities, [[TropesAreNotBad isn't necessarily frowned up]], but generally there is a real difference between someone who is only a passive follower versus someone who truly believes in it, particularly in the case of Paladins and Clerics who can draw actual magical power from the strength of their faith.

Some characters have a very immature relation to {{God}} or His [[CrystalDragonJesus local equivalent]]. This comes in two main variations, the first with three subvariants, and the second with two.

'''Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease''' Not only would it be FlameBait, but this is also one of those tropes that most people can agree is unfortunately common in RealLife but can't agree what cases are examples and what cases are not.

* In ''Fanfic/TheConfectionaryChronicles'', one reason Loki swiftly becomes fond of Hermione is that she subverts this trope. Most of the time once Loki responds to prayers for his aid in dealing with some urgent matter, people subsequently begin praying for his help with lesser matters such as getting a good job or winning someone over. By contrast, while Hermione summoned Loki to help punish those who drover her sister to suicide, afterwards she simply continues to worship him as her god without making lesser demands. While she does receive help from Loki, she only outright prays for his aid when she's in a life-or-death situation she knows she can't handle herself, and otherwise Loki gives her lessons and takes her on trips on his own merit rather than because Hermione asked for any of it.

* ''Film/WinterLight'': The pastor Tomas Ericsson had an egotistical faith; he thought that God loved him more than anyone else. This is is what leads to his CrisisOfFaith, at least in part.

** Later she also questions one Evangelical while interviewing him about converting if he'd really "given up his ego" as he claims to have by giving away his property and breaking off with his girlfriend, when he did what he'd wanted by following Christ instead. He isn't pleased by this, cutting off the interview and complaining to the station manager, who lectures Daniela over it.

* 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!"]]

* ''Literature/ConfessionsOfGeorgiaNicolson'': PlayedForLaughs, since the titular character is a BrattyTeenageDaughter who isn't very religious, but sometimes prays for God to intervene, especially where her social life is concerned. One notable instance is where she goes to church for the first time in ages after her boyfriend dumps her, in the hopes that God will reward her by having him take her back. At one point, she gets fed up with Him and decides to have a crack at Buddhism instead. Amusingly, she decides to only ask Buddha for small stuff at first, and save the ''really'' important things like the size of her nose and her boyfriend for later, lest he think she's "[[HypocriticalHumor a cheeky new Buddhist who's only believing to get things]]."

* ''Our Man in Havana'': [[ExtremeDoormat James]] is not religious, but swore to his wife that he would 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.

* A sinister example in the ''Series/MidsomerMurders'' episode "Echoes Of The Dead" where TheFundamentalist, hitherto regarded as a naïve, 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 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. However, he is still presented as a believer, just one who happened to [[AGodAmI think murder made him like God.]]

* ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon'': Elder Price suffers from this and provides the page quote at the top. It's not his fault though, as it's made clear that all the praise he has gotten from his family, peers, and church elders for being a devout Mormon has caused him to honestly believe he is supposed be rewarded for following the church's rules and practices to a T.

* On ''WesternAnimation/GodTheDevilAndBob,'' Bob often asks for favors and becomes upset when God fails to provide them. This can shift between Bratty Faith and Whiny Faith since he has a special relationship with God but doesn't act particularly devout. In addition, he once came to believe that being God's prophet meant God was protecting him from any harm, causing him to take dangerous risks (including ultimately sky-diving without a parachute). In reality, he'd just had a lot of dumb luck recently.

* Star Saber of ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'' is an extreme example of False Accusation towards basically all other Cybertronians. He believes everything he does, up to and including genocide, is ordained by Primus and that anyone who disagrees is either an atheist or an apostate deserving of death and/or torture.

* ''Film/BruceAlmighty'' starts out as an example of Whiny Faith, with Bruce constantly whining to God about everything that isn't perfect in his life. This bites Bruce in the ass when he meets God Himself, who basically says "Well, LetsSeeYouDoBetter". Bruce accepts... [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor and things go wrong]]. [[HilarityEnsues Very wrong]].

** It should be noted that, in keeping with the literary Hannibal (who is strongly implied to be a misotheist -- i.e. he ''hates'' God and thinks [[GodIsEvil he is evil]], making him a StrawNihilist who thinks torture-murder is fine since divine justice is a lie), Lecter seems to view actual religious people (or at least, those of the Abrahamic faith) with a mixture of amusement or contempt, referencing, for instance, his twisted "hobby" of collecting newspaper articles of churches collapsing and killing the congregations, since those who love God are still killed by him. Hannibal's justification for his psychological torture of people like Will -- whom he sincerely views as a friend, even surrogate family -- is that God does whatever he likes to those who love him, and therefore so can Hannibal, because both of them are AboveGoodAndEvil.

** The ''Literature/BookOfJonah'' {{deconstruct|ed}}s the trope by having {{God}} himself [[WhatTheHellHero call Jonah out]] for being more concerned about losing a vine that gave him shade than about getting tens of thousands of people in Nineveh to repent.

* ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon'': Elder Price suffers from this and even provides the page quote at the top. It's not entirely his fault though, as it's made clear that all the praise he has gotten from his family, peers, and church elders for being a devout Mormon has caused him to honestly believe he is supposed be rewarded for following the church's rules and practices to a T.

* On ''WesternAnimation/GodTheDevilAndBob,'' Bob often asks for favors and becomes upset when God fails to provide them. This can shift between Bratty Faith and Whiny Faith since he literally has a special relationship with God but doesn't act particularly devout. In addition, he once came to believe that being God's prophet meant God was protecting him from any harm, causing him to take dangerous risks (including ultimately sky-diving without a parachute). In reality, he'd just had a lot of dumb luck recently.

** Though not as evident an example, Ned Flanders sometimes becomes this in his Christian overzealousness, sometimes showing a condescending view of God's treatment towards others or praying for his goodwill for even minor things like winning a game of bowling (mind you, [[GodWasMyCoPilot this one works]]). He's usually not nearly as bad as Homer thinks, however. It's also [[{{Flanderization}} very much]] DependingOnTheWriter.

** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E10PrayAnything Pray Anything]]" has Homer endlessly praying to God for good luck or indulgences, which actually come true. He returns the favor later on [[UngratefulBastard by suing the church following an accident]]. In Homer's defense, Homer believed this was God's work, as when he was praying for funds/a better home, he underwent the accident on the church grounds literally seconds later before [[AmbulanceChaser a lawyer shows up seconds later]] after ''that.'' Given by that point he had swapped praying for ''demanding'' God for nice things however, it still very much applies as Bratty Faith category.

** This is one of the traditional Jewish interpretations to the shift in Elijah's character from the [[TheFundamentalist zealous and vengeful Biblical prophet]] to a jolly Gandalf-like figure in later traditions. A prophet is supposed to warn the people of God's wrath, but also intercede with God on their behalf; Elijah failed to do so, placing his own righteousness and wounded pride first. Having to go to every Passover Seder for all eternity is [[TheAtoner his penance]].

* on ''Series/TheGuestBook'', a woman named Jill tries to make a weekend vacation with her son and his girlfriend, Lynn, a way to “baptize” her by drugging her and doing it in a hot tub due to her being an atheist. This inadvertently causes her to gain an infection on her foot from the hot tub they performed it in, which causes her to visit the hospital. However, she fully recovers it and decides to TurnToRelgion, but this ultimately leads to Jill deciding to leave her faith, since she’s upset at how she thought God didn’t answer her prayers to cover her tracks, but that he answered Lynn’s to heal her, and for downright pettiness because she’s jealous of her good looks, despite her being a perfectly lovely looking older woman, and that Lynn’s life turned completely around after she repented, while her life hasn’t changed any better or worse throughout her life.

** ''Self-Projecting Faith'': A particular flavor of faith known as "self-projection as God" (SPAG) and "vicarious autotheism" outside Wiki/ThisVeryWiki, which often overlaps with the above. Bob arrogantly claims to know God and what He likes or dislikes better than anyone else, but in reality, he is actually [[WishfulProjection projecting]] ''his'' own thoughts and beliefs onto God. This may result in a particularly nasty type of TautologicalTemplar: one who believes -- or desperately wants to believe -- that because of God's OmniscientMoralityLicense, anything he does is justified as long as they advance God's supposed agenda, or fall in line with His infallible set of values that sound suspiciously similar to the templar's own.

* In Music/{{Genesis|Band}}' song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EprQGmZ3Imw Jesus He Knows Me]], the ScamReligion StrawHypocrite preacher caters to this mentality.

'''Guenevere: Listen to him!\\

* In ''Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace'', Guinevere's initial attitude to Lancelot is of the False Accusation variety.

* In Music/{{Genesis}}' song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EprQGmZ3Imw Jesus He Knows Me]], the ScamReligion StrawHypocrite preacher caters to this mentality.