The word 'heathens' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to people who do not adhere to a particular religious belief or practice, especially Christianity. Example: The missionaries were shocked to find that the island was inhabited by a group of primitive heathens who had never heard of the Bible before.
He was succeeded by his sons, all known heathens, and the country of the East Saxons returned to heathenism.
No way should bishops or imams or rabbis have the power in parliament, unelected, to influence the way we heathens (or humanists) should live our lives.
On the morning of this Ashoura, for instance, a Kuwaiti sheikh, Hamed al-Ali, posted on his website a letter condemning the rite as "the world's biggest display of heathens and idolatry".
Unless they are introduced to the books they will certainly remain heathens.
Henry's sea-captains broke through and went much farther down the African coast.Sir Peter Russell's meticulous new biography of the prince demonstrates beyond doubt that the twin motives for these explorations were to convert the Muslims and other heathens to Christianity and to search for gold.
But in the end, worldly factors may settle heathens' and godbotherers' differences.
And the real reason for all these machinations was probably not the noble goal of stiffening his men's backs to subdue the heathens but to ensure that, if things went wrong and the ships' owners demanded compensation, the blame, and the costs, would be spread among the "common folk" in the expedition rather than falling upon Cortes.
His historical works are really apologetic, showing by facts how the church had vindicated itself against heretics and heathens.
First, the Pietist movement, which had considerable influence in Denmark, demanded religious conversion and stressed an obligation to bring the gospel to the heathens.
The antipathy was reciprocated, for in the same passage in the Babylonian Talmud (the annotations and interpretations of the Oral Law compiled by Babylonian Jewish scholars in the 5th century ce) are added the words, "Greater is the hatred wherewith the ʿamme ha-aretz hate the scholar than the hatred wherewith the heathens hate Israel".
Ladislas rooted out heathens in his dominions with severity and introduced Roman Catholicism to Croatia, founding the bishopric of Zagreb (1091).
