It's... not as secular as it sounds. [Shifts, a little fidgety and sticks a straw in his cup to drink the tea.]

Mariejois where the tenryuubito live is the Holy City, Impel Down which is pirate prison is like the five layers of hell with various tortures to punish pirates for their sins, eh? They get baptized and cleaned with boiling water, and then it gets worse from there.