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Every group mentioned experienced institutional persecution by the RCC.

firstly, as repeated ad naueseum, there is no RCC, there is The Church. Secondly, at the time of the Donatists etc. there was no separation between Catholic, Orthodox or Oriental (coptic, Armenian, Ethiopian etc) Churchs, hence there was a united orthodoxy.

Thirdly, there was no persecution by The Church -- as my post tells you, the persecution was conducted by civil authorities -- for Donatists, Constantine didn't like being called the Devil and the DOnatists were supported by an opposing claimant to the Dominus post. ditto for the other heresies.

Finally, if you let a heresy live on, it corrupts innumerable innocents -- cases in point: Mormonism and Islam, both heresies from Christianity and look at what THEY have wrought on the world.

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firstly, as repeated ad naueseum, there is no RCC, there is The Church. Secondly, at the time of the Donatists etc. there was no separation between Catholic, Orthodox or Oriental (coptic, Armenian, Ethiopian etc) Churchs, hence there was a united orthodoxy.
Word games. Not interested. The seat of the church was in Rome and they made a very big deal about that, so it is the Roman Catholic Church as opposed to the Greek church or the Russian Church. It is the church emanating from Rome per the fraudulent 'Donation of Constantine'.

Thirdly, there was no persecution by The Church -- as my post tells you, the persecution was conducted by civil authorities -- for Donatists, Constantine didn't like being called the Devil and the DOnatists were supported by an opposing claimant to the Dominus post. ditto for the other heresies.
The Roman Catholic church was a state church. To say that it didn't persecute is ludicrous. When the state acted - often it did so at the instigation of the church. Tell Copernicus and Galileo they never persecuted. Tell any of the groups mentioned.

Finally, if you let a heresy live on, it corrupts innumerable innocents -- cases in point: Mormonism and Islam, both heresies from Christianity and look at what THEY have wrought on the world.
So we burn them at the stake? That was what Christ taught? Scary terrorist faith there.