Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
Insults are the business of the court.
In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.
There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.
Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.