Thank you for playing!!! I always look forward to your playthroughs!
Spoiler: The surgical process performed on Clarence is a lobotomy. It was something that people would force others into if they weren’t considered to be “normal.” However, the process would usually leave the patient extremely docile and detached from reality, assuming they even survived it.
About the religion thing, I don’t think that people will get mad unless they happen to be insanely hypocritical! The religious critique is mostly against hypocrites that use religion as a means to propagate terrible things.