Idolatría bárbara

[...] to convince you of your errors in point of Religion, which are altogether dismal and deplorable, inasmuch as you have departed from the worship of the true God, to pay your adoration to insensible pieces of wood, the work of your own hands, representing devils and unclean spirits, to whom you impiously and inhumanly sacrifice the blood of your fellow-creatures." He added other arguments to persuade the Indian emperor to renounce his barbarous idolatry; and, when he finished his oration, Motezuma rising from his seat, "I accept (said he) with all due acknowledgment, the confederacy and friendship you propose from the great descendant of Quezalcoal: but all gods are good, and yours may be what you say, without offence to mine."