Separation from nonbelievers trumped conversion as the Church’s eventual Spanish policy.

Evidence

The Church could not ever settle on a coherent and realizable policy toward non-Christian Spaniards any more than could the state. On the one hand, its duty to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to all men was clear. But it also was moved by a desire to eradicate from Christian society all heresy and evil. Eventually, in the Edicts of Expulsion, it came to see the physical eradication of the agents of heresy, the removal from contact with Christians of those who were resolved to cling to non-Christian beliefs, as being more important than the hope of making converts. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1111

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly relevant to the ‘On Sacrifice’ piece’s theme of eliminating agents of heresy as ritual cleansing; also parallels the segregationist logic in the immodesty piece.