Why did Dante most likely choose to write his views on Christianity in an indirect manner when he wrote the Divine Comedy?

Most likely because it was a comedy and he was joking about but if he talked about maybe (these are just guesses) that he is a Christian and didn't want to say anything mean or hurtful cause in the end then he would only be hurting himself or that he didn't want to be clobbered by the Christian because Christians have killed because of there religion just look at the crusades on the soldiers Way they saw Jews and assassinated them because they believed all the Jews were at fault for Jesus's death.