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deicide
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deicide [ˈdiːɪˌsaɪd]
n
1. the act of killing a god
2. a person who kills a god
[from ecclesiastical Latin deicida, from Latin deus god; see -cide]
deicidal  adj

deicide
1. the killing of a god.
2. the killer of a god. — deicidal, adj.
See also: God and Gods


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The first of those villains was the Jews, who began to be widely perceived not only as deicides but as activist enemies of temporal Christendom.
Yet in the same sermons, so much praised up to the present day for their spirituality, he called the Jews deicides, killers of God, blaming them for all sorts of imaginary crimes, and describing their synagogues as whorehouses.
So the gospels made them the deicides, the Christ killers, all of them and all of their descendants forever accursed.
 
 
 
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