This is not a serious discussion or debate. If you'd like to have a debate about including religion in writing, there's a forum for that! While I'm sure many people would be very interested in that, I'm not.
Here's my question:
How do you include religion in your writing? Do you include it at all? How do you feel it is tasteful to include religion in your writing, regardless of if you agree with it/are religious or not?
Background:
I'm not religious, but I was raised Lutheran (Protestant Christian). I have a series of short stories/novellas that all fit in the same universe, but don't necessarily take place around the same characters or same time frames. They're mainly centered on the fact that in this universe, fire-and-brimstone demons are real, and they want to screw things up.
It's all set in the culture I'm familiar with, which is the Southern Christian climate, so even though I'm not religious, I feel comfortable including these religion-coded foci and themes in my work. Even though the stories do include various religious figures and ideas (churches and faith as themes), they're not religious stories, and in fact probably lean more against modern religion than for it.
I'm really curious if y'all include religion at all in your works. If you do, why, and how do you feel about it?
This also isn't an opportunity to evangelize or try and convert people. Let's keep it a chill discussion about writing please!
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