What about moral values? What does Reality have to do with Morality? Without a God, how do you discern right from wrong?
That's where reality as a religion separates itself from reality as a science. As a religion we are dedicated to the Principle of Positive Evolution. That we are on one planet - that we are all here together - and that we choose to make tomorrow better than today. To us the Tree of Knowledge and the Tree of Life are sacred and we dedicate ourselves to the exploration of reality the way it really is. In order to live our lives the way we have chosen - we have to have a sense of right and wrong based on building a strong functional society in accordance with the Sacred Principles. It is one of the Sacred Moral Missions to ask if any rules or laws or moral principles are really in the best interests of society and are fair and just.
The Church of Reality accepts certain Axioms which form the basis for our moral code. We choose a world view that our existence is important to us and that we are to thrive and to progress and to evolve forward in a sane healthy society where we can all live together in harmony and explore our existence. These axioms form the basis for the Sacred Principles which define our moral code and allows us to distinguish right and wrong.
Our morality comes from wisdom and hard work. We make the effort to figure it out and make careful choices based on realistic concepts. We don't have a "sacred book" where some ancient prophet declared morality based on his personality. But the Sacred Moral Question is very much a part of this religion.
But other religions have a lot of the same moral values as the Church of Reality. Why start a new religion?
Yes - many religions came to the same moral conclusions based on reality as the Church of Reality did. But often religions rely of "Holy Books" and bad cultural habits to define morality in terms that are unrealistic and unjust. For example - Christians and Jews consider the Sabbath to be a holy day putting it in the same list as murder and stealing. They have commandments about having no other gods so that their invisible guy in the sky is exclusive to everyone else's invisible guy in the sky. Religions tend to be very irresponsible when it comes to issues of war and peace. Although they give lip service to being against murd, Muslims will put you to death for sexual crimes.
Many other religions are male dominate in their beliefs and culture. The Church of Reality considers people to be equal, giving the same rights and responsibilities to everyone without regard to gender. The Church of Reality doesn't rely on ancient texts to tell us what to do. We have the responsibility of having to figure it out for ourselves and to put out the effort to get it right and fix it is it's broken. In other religions - if the sacred text has it wrong - it stays wrong. We are always looking for the better way.
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