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You’re explaining what you see as their offences and that is informative but quite beside the the issue I put to you.

and that was the question of whether there was any teaching, example or principle of Christ’s teaching authorizing his followers to kill or do harm, persecute, etc. those who disagreed with them.

I appreciate your responses about what would I do but that is really irrelevant to the question. No matter what I do or do not it hasn’t any pertinence to what it appears you defend, the killing and persecution of those the Catholic Church deems “heretics” and worthy of death.

“You would never kill anyone for any reason?”

I might if I accepted the validity of your logic and followed the example of the Popes instead of Christ’s teaching and example.

It is not a matter of disagreement; it was a matter of concern for their souls and a concern that they would lead others down the same or similar paths.

Did they go too far? In some cases, no question.

However, this is something that needs to be said: a declaration of heresy or excommunication is not a condemnation to hell by the Church. It is the Pauline expulsion from the Church by those who would not act as Christians. It is rarely done.

I might if I accepted the validity of your logic and followed the example of the Popes instead of Christ’s teaching and example.

This country's early colonies were mostly iron fisted theocracies who killed and drove off those from other denominations.