User blog comment:Umbra-warlock/Theories of Bayonetta 2/@comment-12202589-20140520114345/@comment-24540535-20140521063959

But there are backups...the clones seem to be the replacements. It'd have been just as easy to send send all the Cardinals and have their replacements take over later than to just send and leave it at that.

Who doesn't believe he was the Infinite One? I doubt the people who worship Laguna even know he's there. Its not that they don't believe it'd be more likely that they simply don't know.

Rodin was forced to be Demonic, that he was like that beforehand. He was removed because of his rebellion but that was it. It wasn't because he was "dark" or "to human"...