From the standpoint of a late medieval/early modern leader, are heretics (same religious group, different denomination) or heathens (different religious group) worse?
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>>3013404
What's worse.
Me getting your order wrong but the food is still top tier (since you can't wait any longer and it's discounter 50%) or me getting it right but it's completely off form what you expected.
Bump for interest. All I know is that Christian heresies were dealt with severely before the Protestant Reformation, and in some places and times Jews and Muslims were tolerated (Sicily), while at other times and places they are most certainly not (Spanish Inquisition). Likewise, the Ottomans famously protected Orthodox and Catholic Christians within their borders but did all they could to remove Shiites. But I'm no expert and I know nothing about it apart from Europe, so it would be interesting to read a more knowledgeable person's answer.
It seems more circumstance and political expedience than anything, usually. Which I know is a non-answer, but as >>3013580 noted it varied considerably in different times and places. Even the 30 years war was so politically motivated that it's hard to label it a war over heresy, and the imperial army even had proddies in it.