“I understand they’re not going to die, but they’re going to wish they could?” Rayford nodded.
It’s pretty messed up the way our heroes shrug off a plague designed to inflict prolonged suffering, just because it won’t kill it’s victims. God is literally torturing people to get them to convert, and none of the Christians even have doubts about the ethics of this move. That’s not even ends-justify-the-means thinking; just “we approve of these means, period.”