Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something he can see and feel.
Ambrose BierceTags: humor worship folly senses creature heathen
Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;/ We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death
Algernon Charles SwinburneTags: anti-christian heathen pagan
Your head is filling up...
Matthew SawyerTags: evil demon heathen terrorist pazuzu
He'd already identified me as a heathen, and I hoped he wouldn't try to change that.
Marshall ThorntonTags: heathen
For, from the time that the Bishop of Rome had gotten to be acknowledged for bishop universal, by pretence of succession to St. Peter, their whole hierarchy, or kingdom of darkness, may be compared not unfitly to the kingdom of fairies; that is, to the old wives' fables in England concerning ghosts and spirits, and the feats they play in the night. And if a man consider the original of this great ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive that the papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof: for so did the papacy start up on a sudden out of the ruins of that heathen power.
Thomas HobbesTags: belief religion atheism rationality skepticism materialism roman-empire paranormal spiritualism fairies catholic-church heathen supernaturalism
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