I don't recall doing that but apparently it was successful since they've been wiped out of existence.
Then why your present tense reference to Hunting Heretics? Oh, do you mean the Crusaders? Why yes, they have gone out of existence. Thats why we call them 12th Century (or 13th). But, it appears that some people need the occasional reminder. Like Islamics (constantly). Or others, who make reference to hunting heretics.
Perhaps you mean the more modern moral intimidation wrapped up in ominous references to the Salem Witch Trials of the 1690s. Or, even the more modern references to the Communist Witch Trials of the fifties, launched by Hollywood producers and College Presidents, but certainly not the work of Senator McCarthy (who turned out to be more right drunk, than his Liberal critics did sober)?
Do you refer to the identification of any other group as the hunting of them? Is the identification of the Socialist tendencies in 0bamatrons to be regarded as Commie hunting, or perhaps as some other variation of witch hunting? Liberals, of course, might indulge in behavior of that stripe. But, anyone else?
Or . . . is it just the Christian identification of heretics that bugs you?