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It depends on the audience for each of those series. Depending on how different your series are, you may be in a situation where a pseudonym makes sense.
Religion is one of those sensitive issues. Making a clear division between your religious and non-religious work could be of use to both audiences. At the same time, Roald Dahl wrote children's books and very twisted, very adult fiction under the same name. (Of course, in his day, they were shelved in completely different places, so that helped.)
As someone who is publishing some stories that may turn off the readers of other stories, here are my thoughts:
It's going to be a mess until I get enough of each kind of story out there to satisfy both sets of readers. I didn't think about this that much before I committed myself to both series. But I think I accidentally stumbled on the right approach.
If I'd thought, I might have said "Oh, do the whole series on this so that audience is satisfied, THEN do the other style." But if I'd done that, the first audience might have been unhappy with the change in my direction, and abandoned me. So I'd still have to be writing more on that first group anyway. That method may work if you have one kind of fiction you write a lot more than others - you could establish it, and then start trickling out other kinds.
But for me, I think it works to just let my bookshelves be a mess until I have all the pieces established.
Regardless of how you schedule them, though: IMHO, if you're fast, fast is good (as long as the quality is fine). You can slow down later, but right now, you need a satisfying number of books for each audience.
Camille
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