"The Doctrine of Christian Discovery, which instigated the subsequent triple genocide in three continents of South and North America and later Australia—the only known successful cases of genocide in a literal sense—was explicitly proclaimed in papal bulls (Romanus Pontifex, 1454, and Inter Caetera 1493), which declared it the religious duty of Christians to kill and enslave all non-Christians. The first-hand descriptions of the genocide in the Americas provided by Las Casas (who accompanied Columbus) clearly show that it was religiously motivated, and that those engaged in the genocide thought they were doing their Christian duty by eliminating non-Christians and carrying out God’s will here on earth as it would be in hell."