If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.
Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.
I'm trying to champion the naturalist's worldview and show it's not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to be.
I don't think the job of the antiracist is to convert the far-out heathen racist, or give them their 'come to Jesus' moment, as it's called. They'll either have those or they won't, and usually, when they have them, it's not because of something someone said per se; it's because of some life crisis that makes them rethink.
But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.
I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.
I, myself, identify myself as a heathen.
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.
Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.