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Dorothy Sayers is a Christian, and she likens the creations of good writers to the creation of the Christian god, which is to say, everything. From The Mind of the Maker:
It is also true, as the reader's critical faculty recognizes, that the writer has "favorite" characters, which seem to embody more of or more important parts of his personality than the rest. These are, as it were, the saints and prophets of his art, who speak by inspiration. The creative act is here one of extreme delicacy, and in studying it we gain a kind of illumination upon the variety and inconclusiveness of the world about us. For if a character becomes merely a mouthpiece of the author, he ceases to be a character, and is no longer a living creation.
Maybe she’ll address this, but this seems to say Jesus is boring and a bad character because the author self-inserted.