Ateistene

The Heathen Society calls itself a humanist antireligious liberation movement.

The organization advocates freedom of and, if need be, from religion and opposes Christian and Muslim influence.

From time to time it challenges the so-called "blasphemy paragraph" in section 142 of the Norwegian Penal Code, which provides for punishment for anyone "who publicly insults or in an offensive manner shows contempt for any religious creed or for the doctrines or worship of any religious community lawfully existing [in Norway]".

Charges were filed by the women's branch of the Christian Democratic Party, but later dropped.

We advocate liberation from authoritarian religions and from faiths belittling and dividing men, which rate the value of humankind according to man’s relation to a deity, and which use norms and dogmata to further inhibit human thoughts and emotions.