My novel KYLIE'S HEEL focuses on two sisters, one an atheist, the other a born-again Christian. When the son of the first goes on a health mission to Africa with the other's group, the plot thickens. Humanist Press published it.

My current screen play borrows heavily from Judeo-Christian Abrahamic dogma but then I stood it all right on it's ear, which is why it's taking me years to work out the details and make it all work right and tell a compelling story. But other times not at all.

Lots. It's in almost all the fiction I've written. I try not to be overtly hostile to it.

I enjoy writing religious ideas and concepts, also I enjoy using religious words and imagery, not specific religions, but prophets, monks, blasphemous sceptics, I find them compelling.

I use religious and spiritual metaphors all the time. Done right, they can be incredibly powerful and evocative.

We priests of the invisible
We prophets of the Muse
Our baptismal ink is visible
In the scintillating hues
Of a penetrating vision
That transcends the written world...

(I don't always "do it right": I'm rarely powerful or evocative in my writing...but everyone needs goals, no?)

In one of my novels I invented one specifically derived from the main thrust of the story and used as a literary device -- like plot glue. In another there are some beliefs hinted at, but not explored. Nowhere have I used anything like earthly religions, though I have written several short stories along paranormal lines. So, I voted 'Some', even though I don't think what I spelled out here was what you had in mind.

If you are honest to your craft and your craft not involve writing about an utopia absent of religion... I see why not. It is in your agenda. What do you want to write about? Why? Any beef underline?

My first novel takes a bit of a jab at evangelicals. A lot of my blogging is very anti-theist and anti-religion.

You write to your audience, sometimes I build characters who are relatable to them so they can be pulled in, but it does feel shallow to have to.

If its my journal quite a bit- my other stuff morw along the lines of being the only one you know around and lonelyness

Some of the minor characters in my barely-published novel are religious. The main ones aren't.