Quote Originally Posted by Gez View Post
Religion is perfectly compatible with sci-fi, just look at Dune. (Okay, so it's Space-Lawrence of Space-Arabia, but it's still sci-fi.)
I feel like that's a weird example though, since religion itself is sort of "scientificized" in Dune, what with the Missionaria Protectiva and whatnot. I mean, it's analyzed to the point it sorta loses all mysticism, and/or employed as a deliberate, constructed thing by characters such as the Bene Gesserit and later Leto II.