The religion of peace

[Anomalocaris]

"Wherefore if forgers of money and other evil-doers are forthwith condemned to death by the secular authority, much more reason is there for heretics, as soon as they are convicted of heresy, to be not only excommunicated but even put to death." -- St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica (Secunda Secundae Partis,11,3)

The saint thought the Romans didn’t fully earn the reputation of “making a desert and calling it peace”.    So he thought the worshipers of the lamb of god, armed with his power, should do better.