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* [[Dennis Lehane]]'s ''[[Kenzie and Gennaro Series|Darkness, Take My Hand]]'' features a trio of serial killers who model themselves on the Holy Trinity and crucify all of their victims before killing them. |
* [[Dennis Lehane]]'s ''[[Kenzie and Gennaro Series|Darkness, Take My Hand]]'' features a trio of serial killers who model themselves on the Holy Trinity and crucify all of their victims before killing them. |
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* The ''[[Cthulhu Mythos]]'' often falls into the [[Religion of Evil]] version below, but even its official stance is this. There is no God, nor is there a Devil. There are entities of tremendous power such that humans would call them divine and deific, but these entities, due to their power, have no more concern for humanity than humanity as a whole would care for a dust-scurrying bug. Morality is a human creation, and humans are most certainly ''[[Subverted Trope|not]]'' [[Humans Are Special|special]]. Humanity must make worth of their own life, they have no inherent worth as a race. |
* The ''[[Cthulhu Mythos]]'' often falls into the [[Religion of Evil]] version below, but even its official stance is this. There is no God, nor is there a Devil. There are entities of tremendous power such that humans would call them divine and deific, but these entities, due to their power, have no more concern for humanity than humanity as a whole would care for a dust-scurrying bug. Morality is a human creation, and humans are most certainly ''[[Subverted Trope|not]]'' [[Humans Are Special|special]]. Humanity must make worth of their own life, they have no inherent worth as a race. |
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** "Officiality" is a bit subjective where the Mythos is concerned, however, as a lot of figures in the canon (perhaps most notably [[August Derleth]]) have put a more humanistic and/or Judeo-Christian spin on it. |
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* Parodied in the [[Neil Gaiman|Gaiman]]-[[Terry Pratchett|Pratchett]] collaboration ''[[Good Omens]]''. |
* Parodied in the [[Neil Gaiman|Gaiman]]-[[Terry Pratchett|Pratchett]] collaboration ''[[Good Omens]]''. |
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* David St. Clair's ''The Devil Rocked Her Cradle'', a ceaselessly entertaining book that should probably not be sold as nonfiction. A young man kills his father, bruises a prostitute, rebels against his Catholic upbringing, becomes a thief, and hears demonic voices. He grows up to be an abusive husband whose daughter goes through on-and-off Satanic possession, especially after her newly widowed father starts living with his wife's sister. This leads her to projectile-vomit green stuff, recite [[Madness Mantra]]s, and gesture obscenely at nuns and priests. It's [[Better Than It Sounds]] because it's [[So Bad It's Good]]. (The book's preface even includes the pricelessly redundant line, "[T]his book is not intended to be anti-Christian or pro-demonic.") |
* David St. Clair's ''The Devil Rocked Her Cradle'', a ceaselessly entertaining book that should probably not be sold as nonfiction. A young man kills his father, bruises a prostitute, rebels against his Catholic upbringing, becomes a thief, and hears demonic voices. He grows up to be an abusive husband whose daughter goes through on-and-off Satanic possession, especially after her newly widowed father starts living with his wife's sister. This leads her to projectile-vomit green stuff, recite [[Madness Mantra]]s, and gesture obscenely at nuns and priests. It's [[Better Than It Sounds]] because it's [[So Bad It's Good]]. (The book's preface even includes the pricelessly redundant line, "[T]his book is not intended to be anti-Christian or pro-demonic.") |
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