Wow, now I know how to rile up tomndebb. “You people,” my Og. 
I’m pretty sure you can get it out of the carpeting with club soda. God’s everpresent, supreme love is no match for carbonic acid.
Gawd but this made me giggle like mad.
Is it wrong to want to .sig this, even though I’m a Christian?
Susan
No, you’re Beetlejuice.
Minor kciptiN -
That’s interesting and all, but doesn’t exactly jibe with the dictionary definitions (cite) and (cite), nor with the masters usage (cite) (In a previous life I dared to make your point in reference to this very column* in “Comments on Cecil’s Columns” and was sternly informed that I was wrong)
Dictionary definition of Heathen -
An unconverted member of a people or nation that does not acknowledge the God of the Bible
One who is regarded as irreligious, uncivilized, or unenlightened.
Such persons considered as a group.
I think it’s fair to say that an atheist could be considered unenlightened or irreligious by your run-of-the-mill Christian.
I have never heard anyone else claim that “pagan” is a Latin heathen. Cite? “Pagan” may be Latin for “heathen”, but that’s different. Webster has an example - “as in ancient Rome” and the word is of latin roots, but that doesn’t mean it applies only to someone in Latin countries, for goodness sake.
I admit it, I’m a pagan… er, I mean “heathen” (Irish Celtic pantheon, so that’s germanic, right?) so I’m a little sensitive about proper usage as well, but having been slapped down in the past, and having the dictionary against me, I have to concede that “heathen” does indeed mean “godless”. Not just “one who dwells on the heath” as I was taught in Wiccan 101.
Not that I want to annoy a mod, but there you go.
- I don’t remember what my email was back then, so I couldn’t join as that username, but I tried
No, you get a toaster for making someone else turn gay.
The glurgers probably get some dreadful piece of religious “art” like a plastic dashboard Jesus, or a print of “Footprints” to hang in their home.
I applied the blood of Jesus, but a rash developed and I had to discontinue use.
You’re better off waiting to claim the prize till you turn a few more, the toaster isn’t that great. The bread catches fire before it can toast properly, but then what can one expect from a gay toaster.
And I always thought infidel was a much more fun word than heathen, although ‘you godless heathens!’ does have a certain ring to it.
Come on, try it…You INFIDEL! it’s just fun to say.
I’m not gay, but I’m so unattractive, most of the guys I’ve been interested in have decided they’d rather be gay than go out with me. Am I eligible for a prize for turning them gay anyway? Do I have to go to San Francisco to pick it up, or do they deliver to the East Bay? 
If the approximately 1,200 times I recited the Lord’s Prayer as a child didn’t do it, I doubt that three repetitions will.
But if you spill it on the carpet, will it be a blood stain or a wine stain, and what do you use to clean it up?
Hey, if club soda can get out cat vomit stains, it should be able to handle some godly effluent.
Okay, if the club soda doesn’t work after all, just make a joyful noise unto the Lord and you’re good to go.
Aw, c’mon, it’s way more fun to say heathen.
Bless you, my son.
I didn’t even have to read it. I just passed my hands over the screen three times and was born again.
Of course, a heathen atheist might easily get the two unfamiliar names bass ackwards… :eek:
It’s not about ignorance, it’s about fun. Nobody thinks “atheist” is funny, but if I want to break up the monotony by occasionally saying I’m a heathen, infidel or a nothing, it gets the same message across. If you like, even if it’s not correct, consider that it’s actually a satire of our mostly-Christian culture.
Okay, I’m confused. According to these rules, if the prayers have no effect, it doesn’t actually prove that I’m an atheist: it proves that there is no God. This seems like a peculiarly retrograde form of evangelism.
“TAKE THIS TEST!!! If nothing happens, then Christianity is a total crock, and I’m just a randomly deluded freak with a blood fetish! YOUR FRIEND, ANONYMOUS”