Take again a look at what your church said about hersy..
When Constantine had taken upon himself the office of
lay bishop,
episcopus externus, and put the secular arm at the service of the
Church, the
laws against heretics became more and more rigorous. Under the purely
ecclesiastical discipline no temporal punishment could be inflicted on the obstinate heretic, except the damage which might arise to his personal dignity through being deprived of all intercourse with his former brethren. But
under the Christian emperors rigorous measures were enforced against the goods and persons of heretics. From the time of Constantine to Theodosius and
Valentinian III (313-424) various
penal laws were enacted by the Christian emperors against heretics as being guilty of crime against the State. "In both the Theodosian and Justinian codes they were styled
infamous persons;
all intercourse was forbidden to be held with them; they were deprived of all offices of profit and dignity in the civil administration, while all burdensome offices, both of the camp and of the curia, were imposed upon them; they were disqualified from disposing of their own estates by will, or of accepting estates bequeathed to them by others; they were denied the right of giving or receiving donations, of contracting, buying, and selling; pecuniary fines were imposed upon them; they were often proscribed and banished, and in many cases scourged before being sent into exile. In some
particularly aggravated cases sentence of death was pronounced upon heretics, though seldom executed in the time of the
Christian emperors of
Rome. Theodosius is said to be the first who pronounced heresy a capital crime; this
law was passed in 382 against the
Encratites, the Saccophori, the
Hydroparastatae, and the
Manichæans. Heretical teachers were forbidden to propagate their doctrines publicly or privately; to hold public disputations; to ordain
bishops,
presbyters, or any other
clergy; to hold religious meetings; to build conventicles or to avail themselves of money bequeathed to them for that purpose. Slaves were allowed to inform against their heretical masters and to purchase their freedom by coming over to the
Church. The children of heretical
parents were denied their patrimony and inheritance unless they returned to the
Catholic Church. The
books of heretics were ordered to be burned." (
Vide "Codex Theodosianus", lib. XVI, tit. 5, "De Haereticis".)
sounds like a God thing doesn't it? Did God burn the heretical jewish books? Did he send the pharisees to jail. Take their property, make it so no one could be around them, and eventually kill them for their heresies?
Nice try dude.