I am a Protestant. My very existence is, itself, heretical. Talking not required.
I am not in the habit of thinking in terms of heresy. Per instructions, I leave decisions about heresy to a higher authority. Do not misunderstand. I have thoughts about heresy, but I do not seek to inflict others with those thoughts. Nor do I think to punish others who hold thoughts contrary to my own.
Look, I’m not asking you to agree with the world-view of the Inquisition here, I’m just asking you to understand it.
In many Christian societies where you had a dominant church—Protestant or Catholic—it was thought that murdering someone’s SOUL by luring them into heresy was an even worse evil than murder of the body.
We can’t relate to it largely because we don’t have a single dominant church here like they did in medieval times, and Calvin’s Geneva, and Tudor England, and the Old Testament.
Anyway, what you said is pretty much what most pious Catholics would have said back in the day. “Per instructions, I leave decisions about heresy to a higher authority.”