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Originally Posted by barnstenchfartface

'Course the silly part is they're trying to pass off Newton as super science man only concerned with cold hard facts when he was actually pretty religious, and never used his scientific findings to try to disprove spirituality or anything.

I think you're making that assumption based on the lines that were drawn between the Akari, Onari, and the two Eyecons. The fact is, Newton himself only expressed a kind of a timid disbelief of something he did not understand, and Himiko only suggested that he did not agree with her own beliefs. Akari was the one who jumped to conclusions, claiming the reason behind Newton's reaction was that he was a man of science and hard facts, who couldn't handle Himiko's mysticism. I think she was misunderstood, and the more likely reason for his rejection of Himiko was because of exactly what you yourself stated: he was a religious man. He did not agree with Himiko's practices because of his own religious beliefs, not because he was exactly like Akari. In the end, his trial was to realize their differences in practice were irrelevant in the name of solving a problem.