Deicide

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For the American death metal band, see Deicide (band)

Deicide is the killing of a god: either the God of a monotheistic religion, or one of the gods of a polytheistic religion.

1 Etymology
2 In Christianity
3 In fiction
4 See also

[edit] Etymology

The word derives from medieval Latin dei- ("god"), and -cida, from the verb caedere ("to cut down"). As with some other words that share the same suffix - suicide, homicide, patricide, etc. -the word can refer either to the act or to the person who commits the act.

[edit] In Christianity

Main articles: Responsibility for the death of Jesus and Jewish deicide

Jesus was crucified some time between the years 26 and 36^{[citation needed]}. If, as Christian theology holds, Jesus is a God, an incarnation of a God, or an aspect of a God, the ones responsible for the crucifixion would be guilty of deicide, knowingly or not. The question of this responsibility has been controversial within Christianity, and sometimes a cause of antisemitism.

[edit] In fiction

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The death of gods is prominent in the DC Comics Universe with the onslaught of Final Crisis and the twilight of the Fourth World. The Guardians of the Universe even gave their Green Lantern officers a code (1011) for an occurrence of deicide.
In the Star Trek universe, the Klingon religion held that when the gods created Kortar, the first Klingon, he killed his gods and burned their paradise to ashes.
The plot of the popular comic book Preacher involved tracking God down and making him account for his actions. By the end of the series, a supporting character called The Saint of Killers, actually kills God.
In the video game God of War, the anti-hero, Kratos, is on a quest to murder the god of war, Ares.