Heathen Quotes

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

No, I'm not religious. At all. I'm an atheist.

Only a few years after the permanent settlement of Virginia, some fifty missionaries arrived to begin the massive task of converting the heathen. The Indians on their part, did not respond with alacrity to the idea of adopting a culture that to them, in many cases, seemed barbarous, indeed.

There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left. They are the heathen.

Ah! the best righteousness of our man-of-war world seems but an unrealized ideal, after all; and those maxims which, in the hope of bringing about a Millennium, we busily teach to the heathen, we Christians ourselves disregard.

But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.

Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and, contrasted with heathen mythology, is truth as opposed to falsehood.

The only way to convert a heathen is to travel into the jungle.

I am an infidel. I know what an infidel is, and that's what I am.

Worry is characteristic of the heathen, not the Christian.

How long will the heathens rage?

I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage.

There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion; in the bloody religions of the heathen.

Law is but a heathen word for power.

The Roman Christian mythology (and theology) discourages the vice of licentiousness, and so this is better than the heathen, but it encourages bigotry, hypocrisy, cant, and many another vice which the older Mother of Abominations kept clear from.

… like looking for an atheist in heaven

An infidel is one who does not believe another’s religion.

The wretched world lies now under the tyranny of foolishness; things [witches and witchcraft] are believed by Christians of such absurdity as no one ever could aforetime induce the heathen to believe.

The vanquishment of the heathen consists in obliging them to destroy one another.

The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.

Honestly, I'm, like, the least religious person in the world.