false god
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To become capable of destroying a false god, she subjects herself to massive doses of radiation.
From Salon ● May 24, 2026
Back in Germany, though, the rise of the Nazis is what sets Bonhoeffer on his Christian resistance path, disturbed by the country’s sudden fealty to a false god stoking “rumor and rage.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024
Worshipping the false god of perfection denigrates the fact that mere excellence not only exists, but also thrives, in many places and at many levels.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 4, 2019
I think happiness is a false god to be worshiping.
From Time ● Jan. 28, 2014
But can you destroy this false god Harmac, or dare you fight the Fung?
From Queen Sheba's Ring by Haggard, Henry Rider