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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/48207
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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/48207
License name: CC BY-SA 4.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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?"
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> "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?"
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> "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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