"was the identity of all non-Christians as "offspring of the devil" that allowed these acts "in memory of Our Redeemer and His twelve Apostles," not in spite of Christianity, but because of it. Bartolome, of course, knew that there were other motivations as well: Their reason for killing and destroying such an infinite number of souls is that the Christians have an ultimate aim, which is to acquire gold, and to swell themselves with riches in a very brief time and thus rise to a high estate disproportionate to their merits."