A juxtaposition:
Man is not capable of knowing by himself what is good and evil, therefore God taught him his will. Moral: the priest does not lie; the question of “true” and “untrue” does not exist in the matters about which priests speak; these matters do not allow one to lie at all. For, to be able to lie, one would have to be capable of deciding what is true here. But of this man is not capable; thus the priest is merely the mouthpiece of God – Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, transl. H. Mencken, section 55.
Who make up this royal priesthood today? The apostle Peter answers that question in his first inspired letter. To anointed members of the body of Christ, Peter wrote: “You are ‘a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for special possession, that you should declare abroad the excellencies’ of the one that called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.” (1 Peter 2:9) From these words it is clear that, as a group, the anointed footstep followers of Jesus make up this “royal priesthood,” which Peter also called “a holy nation.” They constitute the channel that Jehovah uses to provide his people with instruction and spiritual direction. – Matthew 24:45-47 – Watchtower 2002, August 1, pg. 13.
"Chaldean priests were believed to be alone in possessing the key to the understanding of the Mythology of Babylon, a key handed down to them from primeval antiquity, so the priests of Rome set themselves up to be the sole interpreters of Scripture; they claimed to be alone in having the true tradition, transmitted from age to age, without which it was impossible to arrive at the true meaning of that tradition." - Alexander Hislop, The Two Babylons.
Such a priestly syllogism is by no means merely Jewish and Christian; the right to lie and the shrewdness of “revelation” belong to the priestly type, to the decadent priests as well as to the priests of paganism (pagans are all those who say Yes to life, for whom “god” is the word for the greatest of all things). The “law,” the “will of God,” the “holy book,” “inspiration"—all mere words for the conditions under which the priest attains power, with which the priest preserves his power; these concepts are found at the basis of all priestly organizations, of all forms of priestly or philosophic-priestly rule. The “holy lie"—common to Confucius, the law of Manu, Mohammed, the Christian church—is not absent in Plato. “Truth is there”: this means, wherever it is announced, the priest lies – Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, transl. H. Mencken, section 55.