Motohiko IZAWA pointed out that if Nobunaga tricked the Nichiren Hokkeshu sect, the sect should not have obediently written the deed, and in those days, as religious sects were consistently resistant to the secular power, a big uprising should have broken out.
井沢元彦も「もし信長が日蓮法華宗を嵌めたのなら、なぜ素直に詫び証文を書いたのか、また当時の宗教は世俗の権力に徹底的に反抗するのが常であり、大規模な法華一揆を起こさなかったのか」と指摘している。