However, intention needn't enter in, and if a reader sees things in a religious way, and the work is dogmatically acceptable, then I don't see why it should not be interpreted in that way, as well as in others.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.
Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.
I think once you write fiction, you put it out, and it can be interpreted in a variety of ways, some of which are going to be shocking to the writer.
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.
I don't really say, 'Is this script Catholic or not?'. But if I find it to be immoral, or it doesn't sit right with me, which happens a lot these days because there's a lot of garbage being written... I'm like, 'I'm not doing this.'
The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.
I don't think we should proselytize a particular religion.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.