What's the difference between crucifixion and deicide?
Crucifixion
Definition:
(n.) The act of nailing or fastening a person to a cross, for the purpose of putting him to death; the use of the cross as a method of capital punishment.
(n.) The state of one who is nailed or fastened to a cross; death upon a cross.
(n.) Intense suffering or affliction; painful trial.
Example Sentences:
(1) That show featured a mock crucifixion, with Madonna singing Live to Tell while suspended from a giant mirrored cross.
(2) However the name of Nimr’s nephew Ali al-Nimr, who has been sentenced, against international law, to crucifixion for taking part in anti-government protests aged 17 – and whose case was pushed by the Labour party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, in his first conference speech – was not on the list released by the authorities of those executed.
(3) It ordered the crucifixion of a man accused of murder.
(4) The major pathophysiologic effect of crucifixion was an interference with normal respirations.
(5) A spokesman for al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya – which only last week called for the crucifixion of masked Egyptian protesters known as the Black Bloc – "rejected" assassinations as a political tool, while the leader of the Nour party, Egypt's largest Salafi group, went further, criticising "all forms of violence".
(6) The Viennese parents in Benny's Video cover up the evidence of the murder their son has committed at home, and the German pastor in The White Ribbon indignantly refuses to recognise the horrors – including the crucifixion of a pet bird – that abound in his household.
(7) Abbott told parliament people had watched with “growing horror” at events in Iraq and Syria including “beheadings, crucifixions and mass executions of innocent people”.
(8) They wasted a crucifixion, but if they think that is what they got they are bad judges of the genre.
(9) The sites of battles, murders, genocides, plagues, sieges, crucifixions and reality TV show planning meetings bespatter the planet.
(10) We haven’t just seen millions of people displaced, we haven’t just seen tens of thousands of people killed here in Iraq; we haven’t just seen the beheadings, the crucifixions, the mass executions and the sexual slavery here in Iraq, we have also seen exhortations from the death cult to people right around the world to engage in acts of terrorism, and even Australia has had its brush with terrorism in recent weeks,” he said.
(11) Crucifixions of Isis opponents have taken place in Raqqa’s Paradise Square, as well as frequent beheadings and lashings for offences as minor as smoking a cigarette.
(12) It’s not just that the austerity imposed on Greece has delivered a 1930s-style depression, or that Ukraine was recently bailed out with generous debt write-offs but without any crucifixions or waterboarding.
(13) She describes how her nephew was crucified to death and a video of his crucifixion was put on the internet.
(14) He said it could “hardly be Islamic to kill without compunction Shia, Yazidi, Turkmen, Kurds, Christians and Sunni who don’t share this death cult’s view of the world” and nothing could “justify the beheadings, crucifixions, mass executions, ethnic cleansing, rape and sexual slavery”.
(15) We have seen the beheadings, the crucifixions, the mass executions.
(16) Add to that his unapologetic opposition to saving Syria by “dropping a few more bombs”, rejection of a £100bn Trident renewal and challenge to David Cameron to intervene with his Saudi friends to halt the crucifixion of a protester – and the new direction could hardly be clearer.
(17) Motion pictures based on events that took place a long time ago can play fast and loose with the facts, particularly if Mel Gibson is the director: William Wallace never met Queen Isabella, wife of the unfortunate Edward II; the British army did not make a policy of incinerating American civilians in churches during the revolutionary war; it was the Romans, not the Jews, who killed Christ, and it is doubtful that anyone involved in his crucifixion spoke Aramaic.
(18) And of course, the most famously iconic image from the film is that of a stripped Andy standing with his arms outstretched, his head turned heavenward, in a moment of agony and ecstasy clearly resembling the crucifixion.
(19) They included "the massacre of people solely for reasons of their religious adherence"; "the execrable practice[s] of decapitation, crucifixion and hanging of corpses in public places"; "the choice imposed on Christians and Yazidis between conversion to Islam, payment of a tax (jizya) and exodus"; "the forced expulsion of tens of thousands of people, including children, old people, pregnant women and the sick"; "the abduction of women and girls belonging to the Yazidi and Christian communities as war booty (sabaya)", and "the imposition of the barbaric practice of infibulation".
(20) "In the different accounts of the crucifixion there is a similar grim sense of factual narrative.
Deicide
Definition:
(n.) The act of killing a being of a divine nature; particularly, the putting to death of Jesus Christ.