Depends what you mean by 'Heathen'.

Heathen can have either a bad connotation or a neutral connotation. In some sense sense heathen means the fuckers who say they are murderers. People who worship strange Gods, weirdos. It can also just be a neutral term for people who are not Christian believers, who are not deemed by ordinary Christians to be evil people necessarily. What does heathen mean to you?