There has always been a spiritual nature to these games, but I have to agree with Vampess. The first time my grandson wanted to play the game, he asked me, "Grannie, what's a heathen?" That broke my heart. I didn't know how to explain it to him, so I looked it up in the dictionary, but I couldn't read the definition. So, after playing Last Day of Work games with my grandsons since VV1 came out, for the first time, I said, "Let's play a different game." It would have been so easy to change the terminology in this game and prevent this religious aspect.

Heathens = Unfriendlies
God Powers = Guiding Hand Powers
Explaining the Truth = Being Friendly
Converting the Heathens = Bringing a new Villager into the Tribe

Words have power, and some words have no good connotations. Heathens is one of those words. I'm shocked at Last Day of Work that they decided to use this word. It seems to me that such a creative team could have come up with better language.