Thanatolatry

Quick meaning: Thanatolatry is a noun meaning (religion) The worship of death.

Meaning

(religion) The worship of death.

Example Sentences

They confuse Christianity with a thanatolatry and a dolorolatry, a worship of death and suffering.

There is the negative thanatolatry of resisting death at all cost and so bowing before death's domination, before death as extermination.

This is thanatolatry, martyropathology or nihilism: when an entire society orients itself in this direction, that society is becoming suicidal.

What is going on here? Has not thanatolatry won the day—and the life? We must make an implied distinction between death as extermination, the stinging death of sin claiming worship dominative, demonic death, and death as, in McGill's words, “communicating expediture.”

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include thanatocracy, thanatourism, thanatomancy, thanatomania, thanatism, thaumatolatry.

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