/lit/ - Literature

Advice on how to properly portray a thematic debate in my story without coming off as preachy and high-horsey? One of the themes in my story is about the role religion plays in society, and my main answer is that religion is a social creation made (consciously or not) in order to control the population. How would you go about portraying this in your story while keeping it grounded? I mean in a more technical words-on-paper method, rather than the more macro approach (although that is also welcomed)