Any real faith most certainly beats the musings of a dead SF writer. I can understand the H-wood types going for it...after all, we’re not talking the top of the IQ chain there.
Oh, I’d rate Islam within 0.1 dB of Scientology.
L. Ron Hubbard once said he was going to pull something off that would make P. T. Barnum look like a piker. P. T. Barnum, of course, is known for his comment “There’s a sucker born every minute.”