Bartolomé de las Casas: Quotes about God

Bartolomé de las Casas was Spanish Dominican friar, historian, and social reformer. Explore interesting quotes on god.
Bartolomé de las Casas: 42 quotes16 likes

“And why have you burnt our Gods, when others are brought from other Regions by the Spaniards? Are the Gods of other Provinces more sacred than ours?”

Bartolomé de las Casas book A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

Source: A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

“Christ seeks souls, not property. … He who wants a large part of mankind to be such that … he may act like a ferocious executioner toward them, press them into slavery, and through them grow rich, is a despotic master, not a Christian; a son of Satan, not of God; a plunderer, not a shepherd.”

Bartolomé de las Casas

Source: In Defense of the Indians (1548), p. 40