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faith +‎ -ectomy

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faithectomy (plural faithectomies)

  1. A removal of faith.
    • 2008, Dan Barker, Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists, Ulysses Press, →ISBN, page 324:
      Our planet needs a faithectomy. I gave up the religion, but I kept the music.