“Having a religion is much like having a penis. It is all well and good to have one, and one can even be proud of it. When you whip it out in public and bandy it about in my face, we will have problems.”

-Dame Maggie Smith

When I was but a teenager, I once very briefly courted a pagan person who asked me “what do you think ‘heathen’ means?” I didn’t know the correct answer - neither the dictionary definition nor the one she wanted - so I said something like “someone who disagrees with the religion of the person speaking the word.”

She responded, in what I now realize was a condescending manner, that it actually meant “people of the hills.” I didn’t research it at the time but, looking it up now, I can’t find anything to support that claim.