A Holy Lie is a philosophical concept coined by Friedrich Nietzsche in his late notes.
A holy lie, according to Friedrich Nietzsche, is the means by which priests and philosophers obtain the piety of their audiences.
[1]The means he employs are as follows: he alone is all knowing; he alone is virtuous...Nietzsche argues that the purpose of human action is altered by the holy lie since the original moral standards of the general public is influenced by the moral standards preached by the priests and philosophers.
Consequently, the human faculty of moral judgment based on the "beneficial" versus the "harmful" is in dysfunction.
People who accept the holy lie do not evaluate the fairness of a thing by what Nietzsche calls "The natural notion".