Citations:Godkiller

one (being, weapon, vessel, etc) who or which is designed to, or does, kill (a) God

 * cf. a deicide


 * 1991, Richard Stites, Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution, Oxford University Press (ISBN 9780199878956), § Godkillers and Godbuilders:
 * Mockery and science seemed to vie for the blasphemous energies of the early Godkillers. Ivan Pryzhov, a radical of the 1860s, so hated religion that he would conduct his drinking bouts in a parody of Orthodox ritual. [...]
 * 2009, Gary Gibson, Nova War, Pan Macmillan (ISBN 9780230747081):
 * More drones struck fragile plasma conduits and sun-hot energy spilled out, consuming the Godkiller from the inside out.
 * 2017, Nancy Holder, Wonder Woman: The Official Movie Novelization, Titan Books (US, CA) (ISBN 9781785653797):
 * She spun the Godkiller in her grip, preparing for battle. She was an Amazon. She was a defender, protector. And she was here to save the world.

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 * 1915, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, page 74:
 * "But the 'dirty' Jews are godkillers." "Both Jews and blacks deserve neither justice nor mercy from white Christians. They are to be hanged, or burned, on suspicion. And Leo Frank was a Jew. That was enough for the Georgia mob."
 * 2001 Spring, John W. Bicknell, God's Funeral (review), in Victorian Studies (Indiana University Press), volume 43, number 3, pages 506-507:
 * Wilson tells us about Clough's upbringing and quotes his reaction to his first years at Balliol, asserts that Clough experienced agonies, but quotes nothing to illustrate them; he recites a third-hand story about Stephen's alleged suicidal mood when he gave up his faith, but gives us nothing of Stephen's sense of liberation as expressed in his "Apology for Plainspeaking" (1873) and in numerous letters, or, for that matter, anything of the polemical excitement to be found in John Morley and the godkillers who wrote for the Fortnightly Review.
 * 2013, Eliot Pattison, Beautiful Ghosts: A Novel, Minotaur Books (ISBN 9781466850385)
 * “I wanted to ask you about the godkillers.” “I said I&#39;m taking you in,” the man said, stepping forward, raising a fist. As he did so Shan saw a piece of knotted twine hanging from a button and a piece of rolled paper tied to a cord around his neck. Mockery and science seemed to vie for the blasphemous energies of the early Godkillers. Ivan Pryzhov, a radical of the 1860s, so hated religion that he would conduct his drinking bouts in a parody of Orthodox ritual. [...]