Basically I'm playing a chaotic neutral cleric of a chaotic evil deity in a campaign, for most part I'm casting-based and it's fine and dandy for most part. However, a major annoyance of mine though is that when I look up spells a lot of them have the [Good] descriptor which effectively means that they are off limits to me. Which wouldn't be so bad if not for the fact that they seem a lot more effective than the ones with the [Evil] descriptor, especially against such things as undead and evil outsiders which are fairly common enemy types.
So I was wondering if there is any way of getting around that pesky "A cleric cannot cast spells of an alignment opposing that of their deity" rule? Changing my deity is definitely not an option, so if there isn't a way I'll just have to accept it, but I'm not going down without a fight... or in this case, a trip to the advice forum.
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You can UMD to read a scroll or use a wand of that spell (depending on your GM's interpretation you may not even need to UMD, it doesn't technically say that those spells are removed from your spell list, just that you can't cast them).
However your deity is likely to look askance at this blatant attempt to circumvent their will. Expect to lose your clerical powers if you do this more than once (and even then only in dire need). Of course that too is up to your GM's interpretation.
Using a scroll is basically casting a spell, so that wouldn't fly. Read the scroll magic item description.
You'd probably have to use a wand to get by with UMD.