"Anon's theory is that they intend to take as many souls with them before their time ends." The corollary to that is, "Lord, if you burn me/us down for what we've done, you must also follow your law and burn the gorillion souls who were deluded by our words over the course of history. Of course, you don't want to burn them, so you have to let us off." A vain hope, but they do hold to it.