Is it about me? Fascinating subject.
Yes, respect for the heretic includes taking his heresy and the consequences thereof seriously. I know I would.
That your kind of Catholic thinking is still alive and well is a testament to the deceit of Satan.
No way I’d ever want to go back to Catholicism if their history of treating heretics is still being applauded by Catholics.
Thank God for the Reformation breaking the power stranglehold that the RCC had on governments and people. People are safe now, safe from the *loving* arms of the mother church.
Some folks are just to impatient to wait; or maybe they just want to help the Lord out...
Matthew 13:24-3024 Jesus presented another parable to them, saying,
“The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field. 25 “But while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went away. 26 “But when the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the tares became evident also.27 “The slaves of the landowner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’
28 “And he said to them, ‘An enemy has done this!’
The slaves said to him, ‘Do you want us, then, to go and gather them up?’
29 “But he said, ‘No; for while you are gathering up the tares, you may uproot the wheat with them. 30 ‘Allow both to grow together until the harvest; and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather up the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them up; but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”
It is relevant as you advocated respect, which needed defining, and represent the class of Catholics who believe they were putting forth their best efforts in punishing them by physical means under Rome's claim to coercive jurisdiction, after the manner of the Inquisitions, etc., and seem to affirm that level of obedience, and thus illustrate what kind of "respect" that can lead to.
Yes, respect for the heretic includes taking his heresy and the consequences thereof seriously. I know I would.
Obviously it is how that translates into action that is the issue.