Brakelite
Well-Known Member
Okay, you win.My argument had been against YOUR claim that these errors were written into Canon Law.
Which begs the question therefore, on what basis were these practises so persistently executed against a people whose sole purpose in life was to share the gospel of Jesus Christ and live in harmony with man and nature? I accept your declaration that it wasn't canon law to specifically murder Waldensian folk, although the authority to persecute heretics was and is in Canon law, originating as I said from that authority passed on to the bishop of Rome by the emperor Justinian, bestowing upon the Pope the right to lord himself over all churches, which right he has never relinquished.
So where was the justification? That it was church policy there surely can be no doubt, as the Waldenses weren't the only people/culture so abominably mistreated and targeted. If not Canon law that demanded the extermination of so called heretics, then what?