Kinda except not really.
The land of Silent Hill was already supernatural. While lkegatre can be inflicted upon anyone and anything, it was the energies of the land suffering lkegatre that created the Otherworld as we see it in the game.
Which is a moot point considering how the town was explicitly stated to be growing stronger ever since Alessa's sacrifice.
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Yeah.
The Order believed different. Their teachings was that God was one of dichotomy; that She needed to be born from misery to know pity.
Which is leap of logic on face value, but hey the Order was a sect of Christianity. Who knows if "Mysterious Ways" was in effect.
Shintoism makes it clear that no, there is no Mysterious Ways out of this one. The entire ritual was dirtied centuries before it even began.