The tenets of a real-world religion can interact... oddly with fantasy or futuristic settings. In the simplest form of this trope, the setting makes religiously forbidden things harder to avoid, or mandatory things harder to do. Maybe it's impossible for Jewish vampires to keep kosher without starving. A group of Muslims on a Generation Ship is likely to have trouble making a pilgrimage to Mecca. (It's also possible in principle for a setting to make religion easier, but that's less likely to happen as it fails to follow the Rule of Drama.) Examples of Fantastic Religious Weirdness include:
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| - The tenets of a real-world religion can interact... oddly with fantasy or futuristic settings. In the simplest form of this trope, the setting makes religiously forbidden things harder to avoid, or mandatory things harder to do. Maybe it's impossible for Jewish vampires to keep kosher without starving. A group of Muslims on a Generation Ship is likely to have trouble making a pilgrimage to Mecca. (It's also possible in principle for a setting to make religion easier, but that's less likely to happen as it fails to follow the Rule of Drama.) Examples of Fantastic Religious Weirdness include:
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| - The tenets of a real-world religion can interact... oddly with fantasy or futuristic settings. In the simplest form of this trope, the setting makes religiously forbidden things harder to avoid, or mandatory things harder to do. Maybe it's impossible for Jewish vampires to keep kosher without starving. A group of Muslims on a Generation Ship is likely to have trouble making a pilgrimage to Mecca. (It's also possible in principle for a setting to make religion easier, but that's less likely to happen as it fails to follow the Rule of Drama.) There can also be interactions between religion and fantasy that are more complex. The discovery of fantastic elements can lead to crises of faith (or it may not for no apparent reason), or conversely make the elements of that faith more relevant. And that's not even getting into the situations where the approach to the religion is part of what makes the setting fantastical... Done well, this can enrich both characters and setting. Done poorly, it makes one wonder if the creators actually know anything about the religion they're trying to portray. This can be Truth in Television. Conferences of real Muslims have grappled with the question of how to pray toward Mecca five times a day while orbiting the earth every 90 minutes. And just how do you determine when Shabbas begins and ends in places that experience polar night and midnight sun? Transgenic foods can also cause confusion when combined with dietary laws. Interestingly, in post-communist Poland, exploration of this sort of thing has developed into a real SF genre, called clerical fiction. Examples of Fantastic Religious Weirdness include:
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