[armordog99]

I have a question for you since you seem to know alot about catholic history. There was something I read years ago that st. Thomas Aquinas wrote about. The overall meaning of the passage was that you must get rid of heretics and pagans that won't convert because they are much more dangerous than murderers. In the sense that a murderer only takes your life where the heretic can lead you astray and wind up putting your soul in hell for all eternity. I have been looking for this passage for awhile. Thanks for any help you can give.

[verdugo]

Scripture is even more strict if you look at Moses in the desert for 40 years and all his purgings, and additionally:

15 He that striketh his father or mother, shall be put to death. 17 He that curseth his father, or mother, shall die the death. (Exodus 21)

18 If a man have a stubborn and unruly son, who will not hear the commandments of his father or mother, and being corrected, slighteth obedience: 19 They shall take him and bring him to the ancients of his city, and to the gate of judgment, 20 And shall say to them: This our son is rebellious and stubborn, he slighteth hearing our admonitions, he giveth himself to revelling, and to debauchery and banquetings: 21 The people of the city shall stone him: and he shall die, that you may take away the evil out of the midst of you, and all Israel hearing it may be afraid. (Deut 21)