Subject: Yep
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Posted on: 2012-01-09 20:40:00 UTC

If the fic is a vehicle for religious, philosophical, or political ideas, then that has nothing to do with whether or not it's bad writing. There's no point in critiquing that--the PPC isn't here to debate religion.

BTW: if someone told me that walking on water isn't physically possible (well, without ice or a trick of some sort), I'd agree and then say Jesus did it anyway. That's why they call it a miracle. :)

I agree with Bible fanfic being off-limits, like real-person fic is; not because there's not bad writing to spork there, but because there are too many people who'd insist that that meant we hated their religion. And I suppose that if the entire point of the fic were to display a religious, political or philosophical viewpoint--if the fic were not really a fic but more of an essay using the story as a vehicle for the delivery of an opinion--it would probably be risking offending somebody if we sporked it.

But staying away from religion, period, seems to be going too far. Just because something's got religion in it doesn't mean you get a free ticket to write horribly, mangle your grammar and ignore your research.

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