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death cult

Noun

Meaning

A religious movement that worships death or the dead.

Synonyms: thanatolatry, necrolatry

A religious group that requires demonstrations of faith involving the risk of death.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate. David Brooks

Islamic State (IS) is a perversion of the religion of Islam - a poisonous death cult that poses an existential threat. David Cameron

Christianity is a death cult gone horribly wrong. Johannes Grenzfurthner

Hamas is an openly genocidal, disgustingly bloodthirsty, racist Islamic death cult that brainwashes Palestinian children to be mindless Jew-killing jihadi suicide missiles. Is there something else we need to know about them? Oh yeah, they also run some hospitals. Charles Foster Johnson

It's bizarre and disgusting to see much of America's media making excuses for a bloodthirsty, openly genocidal death cult. Something is deeply wrong with journalism in this country. Charles Foster Johnson

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