Heretic vs. Heathen: What's the Difference?

Heretic and Heathen Definitions
Heretic
A person who holds controversial opinions, especially one who publicly dissents from the officially accepted dogma of the Roman Catholic Church.
Heathen
An adherent of a religion that does not worship the God of Judaism, Christianity, or Islam.
Heretic
Heretical.
Heathen
Such persons considered as a group.
Heretic
Someone who believes contrary to the fundamental tenets of a religion they claim to belong to.
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Heathen
Heathen An adherent of a Neopagan religion that seeks to revive the religious beliefs and practices of the ancient Germanic peoples.
Heretic
Someone who does not conform to generally accepted beliefs or practices
Heathen
One who is regarded as irreligious, uncivilized, or unenlightened.
Heretic
(archaic) Heretical; of or pertaining to heresy or heretics.
Heathen
Such persons considered as a group.
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Heretic
One who holds to a heresy; one who believes some doctrine contrary to the established faith or prevailing religion.
A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject.
Heathen
Not adhering to the Christian religion (though usually excluding the Jews); pagan.
Heretic
One who having made a profession of Christian belief, deliberately and pertinaciously refuses to believe one or more of the articles of faith "determined by the authority of the universal church."
Heathen
(by extension) Uncultured; uncivilized; savage, philistine.
Heretic
A person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church
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Heathen
Alternative case form of Heathen.
Heretic
A person who holds unorthodox opinions in any field (not merely religion)
Heathen
A person who does not follow a Christian religion; a pagan.
Heathen
(by extension) An uncultured or uncivilized person, philistine.
Heathen
Alternative case form of Heathen.
Heathen
An individual of the pagan or unbelieving nations, or those which worship idols and do not acknowledge the true God; a pagan; an idolater.
Heathen
An irreligious person.
If it is no more than a moral discourse, he may preach it and they may hear it, and yet both continue unconverted heathens.
Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance.
Heathen
Gentile; pagan; as, a heathen author.
Heathen
Barbarous; unenlightened; heathenish.
Heathen
Irreligious; scoffing.
Heathen
A person who does not acknowledge your God
Heathen
Not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam