: Re: How to write a sincerely religious protagonist without preaching or affirming or judging their worldview? I am writing a book in which one of my main characters is a devout Catholic. His struggles

@Jennifer354

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Just note that there is an underlying value judgement that inevitably biases your view on the matter.

Compare the following:

"How to write a sincerely religious protagonist without preaching or
affirming or judging their worldview?"

"How to write a sincerely altruistic and philanthropic protagonist
without preaching or affirming or judging their worldview?"

"How to write a sincere neonazi protagonist without preaching or
affirming or judging their worldview?"

"How to write a sincerely communist protagonist without preaching or
affirming or judging their worldview?"

"How to write a sincerely capitalist protagonist without preaching
or affirming or judging their worldview?"

"How to write a sincerely paedophiliac protagonist without preaching
or affirming or judging their worldview?"

"How to write a sincere robin-hood protagonist without preaching or
affirming or judging their worldview?"

"How to write a sincerely superstitious protagonist without
preaching or affirming or judging their worldview?"

So, for instance, I understand religion to be a particularly virulent (and popular) form of superstition, so I read the first and last of the above examples as basically identical. But if you are religiously devout, you probably read them very differently.

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