[NOTE: these terms are weaponized language, & meant to give offense. Which is the whole & compleat & entire & total point of insult & invective, obscenity & blasphemy, & other political speech.]
LATIN: “Deus mortus est.” ‡‡
‡‡ ) “God is dead.”
— an odd phrase to hear in Latin, esp. since coined by the German philologist & sofa pontiff Frederich Nietzschie, & not terribly offensive in Latin, in sofar as ancient Romans might reply, “which god?”
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