Why this word is great
HOPLOLATRY — [Noun] The veneration or worship of weapons or implements of war. From the Greek hoplo- (from hoplon, "tool, weapon, shield") and -latry (from latreia, "worship, service"). Unlike idolatry, which bows to a crafted image, or technolatry, which genuflects before the general machine, hoplolatry is a precise devotion to the cold geometry of force. It is the ritual oiling of a rifle in a quiet barracks, the glass case housing a ceremonial dagger whose edge has never tasted blood, and the monument of a decommissioned missile standing sentinel in a town square—a faith that mistakes the promise of violence for the evidence of peace, placing ultimate sovereignty not in a god, but in the steel that makes gods obsolete.