Church of Reality

The Church of Reality is a website that describes a religion based on believing in everything that is real. Their slogan is, "If it's real, we believe in it!"
The question, "What is Real?" is classified as the Sacred Question. The Church of Reality proclaims itself to be about the pursuit of reality, there is no set of dogmatic rules which practitioners are commanded to follow. Instead the Church of Reality encourages people to be Explorers discovering reality for themselves. The Church of Reality claims to create a religious identity for people who believe in reality the way it really is.
The Church of Reality website states that it supports good strong healthy communities, education, and anything believed to create a good environment in which to explore reality as the basis for a moral code and a concept of right and wrong in the absence of a deity or holy book.
= "Sacred Missions", According to the "Church of Reality" Website =
According to the website,these are the "Sacred Missions" of the Church of Reality:
*We believe in reality the way it really is - If it's real - we believe in it. The Church of Reality is a Personal Commitment to the Truth. We believe in real reality, not the way we want reality to be, not our personal reality, but real objective reality the way it really is. We Realists are explorers and we explore the universe together with our minds. We think about thinking. We wonder about wondering. We attempt to understand the Understanding of Understanding. We ponder the Great Questions. We are a curious people and we are bound together in our quest to know the real world that we really live in.
*We spread the Sacred Message - Our mission is to spread the importance of reality everywhere. We raise the awareness of reality and we make reality important. Every time we mention Reality we spread the Sacred Message. We are here to ask the Sacred Question - "What is Real?" We want people to consider reality when making important decisions. By spreading the Sacred Message we cause people to be Real in the Sacred Moment (which is Now). Our mission is to say "Reality" as many times as we can and to get other people to think about reality as often as we can. We want people to be more realistic in their daily lives and to spend more time every day wondering about what is really real.
*We Choose the Sacred Direction - The Sacred Direction is forward - onward and upward. Our Principle of Positive Evolution commits us to envision a future that is better than today. We are one planet and we are all in this together on our little ball in the universe. In order to answer the Sacred Question and explore our reality society must move forward. We take responsibility for our future and we commit to making tomorrow better than today.
*We Honor the Tree of Knowledge - The Tree of Knowledge represents the sum total of all human understanding. It is the shared knowledge of the human race. It is the repository of everything we know. The fact that you can read this comes from having a common language to communicate with. The human race survives and thrives through our shared knowledge. Our understanding of reality and our evolutionary process is through growing the Tree of Knowledge.
*We ask the Sacred Moral Question - The Sacred Moral Question is, "Is this a Good Thing?" What does "good" mean? That too is part of the Sacred Moral Question. Right and Wrong and morality and ethics are all relative to your basic assumptions and goals. We base our morality on reality and it is our duty to make sure that reality is taken into consideration when questions of right and wrong are decided. The commitment to Reality is a commitment to truth, honesty, wisdom, and responsibility. The Church of Reality is committed to getting the moral questions right.
*We Issue the Sacred Challenge - The Sacred Challenge is a challenge to other faiths and religions to ask themselves - "How do we know that what we believe is real?" We in the Church of Reality accept scrutiny and doubt as a way of checking ourselves to make sure that what we believe in is true and correct. Other religions are often required to believe things on blind faith and questioning their beliefs is prohibited. We challenge other religions to test themselves and to be responsible and accountable. Reality is our word and if other religions are going to use our word then anything claimed to be real is subject to reality testing. We believe scrutiny is a good thing and that any religion that refuses to accept scrutiny is admitting by their conduct that what they believe in is fiction.
*We Make it Happen - We are a religion that is an activist religion. We don't just find problems - we solve problems. We are committed to coming up with solutions and to take responsibility to bring the concept into reality. We make sure that the job is done right. We are a community and we do the work to make community work. We go out and learn and we try to understand and we spend a lot of time thinking and we give of ourselves for the common good of all people. In the Spirit of the Tree - our shared knowledge - we support sharing. It is our duty to look around and figure out how to make it all work.
= Notable Features of the "Church of Reality", According to its Website =
The Church of Reality website says that Realists are required to contribute ideas in a process called Intellectual Tithing. The code of ethics is based on their Sacred Principles. The religion is atheistic unless God shows up physically. Church of Reality followers are said to believe in Original Virtue as opposed to Original Sin. No after life is promised.
The Church of Reality website states that humanity is evolving and promotes the concept that humanity take control of its evolution to progress towards a better tomorrow, through knowledge and technology. According to the website, The Church of Reality rejects the supernatural and is a doubt based religion as opposed to a faith based religion.
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