> Which got me to thinking. If I wrote this story to take place in the real world, people would obviously see that I'm opposed to this religion, and this lifestyle, and so on and so forth - but if I wrote it as a fantasy, with religious systems I worked out instead of Christianity and other religions simply given goofy names, would people be more willing to accept this story?
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As an avid Discworld reader, it strikes me that this is pretty much exactly what Terry Pratchett does. I suppose he doesn't exactly oppose any religion or lifestyle, fantasy or otherwise, but in "Carpe Jugulum" (which is a book about vampires taking over a small mountain kingdom, just for the record) there are a lot of very interesting and, indeed, controversial issues brought up. Religions in particular get quite a punching in this book, and although Pratchett exaggerates and twists until no-one could pin him down at all, it is still abundantly clear that he is looking sarcastically at different religions.

I'm not sure whether what I wrote was particularly clear there, but there was something else I wanted to say: whatever you write, *someone* is going to be unhappy/angry about it. I won't say that this doesn't matter, but if they're going to be angry anyway, they might as well be angry at something that provokes thought and interest.

Si-"Not sure if I'm making sense"-gi