Made me sympathetic to the Japanese
I mean it was an interesting exercise for the time period of how a country can protect it citizens from an insane cult trying to take hold of it's people.
They learn they can't martyr them so they have to silence them.
I found it pathetic and inhuman that the priests continued to believe in their imaginary sky daddy even though it meant innocent people they put in harm's way were tortured and murdered.
The fact that the priests still clung to their psychotic cult nonsense shows the depth of delusion and the horror of religion.
It's silly that there are even words like "apostate" - like "I don't believe in made up fairy tale nonsense anymore" should have a name.
Religious people who try to indoctrinate others are the greatest threat to peace and technology in the world. Religious people who try to indoctrinate others are terrorists, because that is precisely how terrorism begins: indoctrination.
I hope this is just seen as a page in history toward a future when humans evolve past the horror that is religion.