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Fratricidal

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frat·ri·cide  (frtr-sd)
n.
1. The killing of one's brother or sister.
2. One who has killed one's brother or sister.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin frtricdium and frtricda : frter, frtr-, brother; see bhrter- in Indo-European roots + -cdium and -cda, -cide.]

fratri·cidal (-sdl) adj.


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Far from an anomaly, those episodes were the newest chapter in Afghanistan's longer history of fratricidal warfare and hopeless governance, which some commentators attribute to the country's complex DNA.
The trouble is that it often also held that God became a human being to launch a critique of religion, and that critique became fratricidal in effect.
Were these Cainites--who drew their name from the fratricidal Cain of the Book of Genesis--not simply practicing another religion, one in which Jesus had been incorporated as just one god among many?
 
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