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Do you even understand what you post?

"...In its semi-Pelagian component, an emphasis on the human capability to choose righteousness and reject evil deliberately, Waldensianism stressed that it was in the here and now, in faith and in works, that every Christian could and had to choose between the two. While the semi-Pelagian component in early Waldensian ethics stressed the active pursuit of sanctification, the notion of the two ways made a Waldensian's moral probity in the process of achieving salvation all the more imperative.

That sounds a lot like Roman Catholicism as commonly spoken of by many (but not all) Catholics -- when they are not taking care to recite wordings which profess reliance upon the sacrifice of Christ as propitiation for their sins.

But the Waldensians were not murdered for this.

They were murdered for not bowing down to Roman Catholic claims to 'authority'.

Since as you've said, you have no problem removing heretics from our midst--- what next?

Suicide, perhaps?

Do you even understand what you post?

I do. Do you understand what was written?

That sounds a lot like Roman Catholicism as commonly spoken of by many (but not all) Catholics.

Really? Can you point to the Catholic who says they can will their way to God without His Grace? Protestants see "faith" and "works", put two and two together and get five. But if one knows better (which can be inferred by the use of the modifier, "by many but not all" then it is their duty to fraternally correct them.

Protestants wouldn't want to leave these poor Catholics in ignorance and material heresy now would they? Or, does the protestant say, "Not my Church, not my problem." I think we know which is the more likely scenario.

But the Waldensians were not murdered for this. They were murdered for not bowing down to Roman Catholic claims to 'authority'.

I think you mean the authority of Alfonso II, Pedro II, Francis I, Charles Emmanuel II, etc.

Since as you've said, you have no problem removing heretics from our midst--- what next?

Oh we already know what's next. We're living it right now. "Your truth, my truth, no truth.

I did want to say this, however. If protestants want to look back to the Waldensians then perhaps they should also look back to their anti-Donatist sentiments. It certainly has implications for the modern era.