I'm with you on most of that - I really just don't care about religion on a personal level, never have felt the need for that net to catch me if I fell in the course of my life. And I find myself exploring in my own writing what it means to believe. What belief means. Not really how it works, because for the characters the how is beside the point; they simply believe. (Of course, from the author perspective, the how becomes important if you want a reader to accept the logic behind your story!)
I don't know if there's any way in which religion should be approached differently than you'd approach any other variation in character - to me, religious belief is only one aspect of what makes each character distinct, and so long as they're fully fleshed out as a person, I think you'll have done well in respectfully treating their religious beliefs. No one person is the same as any other.
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Date: 8 Mar 2013 01:44 pm (UTC)I don't know if there's any way in which religion should be approached differently than you'd approach any other variation in character - to me, religious belief is only one aspect of what makes each character distinct, and so long as they're fully fleshed out as a person, I think you'll have done well in respectfully treating their religious beliefs. No one person is the same as any other.