{"id":6367,"date":"2014-06-23T05:54:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T05:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=6367"},"modified":"2014-08-15T02:18:03","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T02:18:03","slug":"2014-07-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-07-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Reality Needs a Religion (and Why Atheism isn&#8217;t Good Enough)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align=\"center\"><a title=\"Marc Perkel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-07-27\/\">Why Reality Needs a Religion (and Why Atheism isn&#8217;t Good Enough)<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><a title=\"Marc Perkel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-07-27\/\">Marc Perkel<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><a title=\"Marc Perkel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-07-27\/\">July 27, 2014<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6086\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Marc-cropped-288x300.jpg\" alt=\"Marc cropped\" width=\"288\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Marc-cropped-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Marc-cropped.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 288px) 85vw, 288px\" \/>Marc Perkel, founder of the Church of Reality, explains why Reality needs a religion and why Atheism isn&#8217;t good enough. In a perfect world Atheism becomes totally meaningless. No one cares what you don&#8217;t believe in, they care about what you do believe in. And what should you believe in? Reality!<\/p>\n<p>Atheism needs Reality because without Reality there would be no place for God not to be real in. Realism is the science of understanding who we are, what our purpose is, and how we can live our lives in Right Relationship to Reality so that Reality doesn&#8217;t excommunicate us from existence.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; Atheists &#8211; it&#8217;s time to put down your Bibles, quit talking about God, and start focusing on what is real rather than what isn&#8217;t real. If you know everything about nothing then you know nothing about everything.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the video of this most interesting presentation here.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/103364033\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/103364033\">Humanist Community Forum (2014-07-27): Why Reality Needs a Religion (and Why Atheism isn\u2019t Good Enough) &#8211; Marc Perkel<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Reality Needs a Religion (and Why Atheism isn&#8217;t Good Enough) Marc Perkel July 27, 2014 Marc Perkel, founder of the Church of Reality, explains why Reality needs a religion and why Atheism isn&#8217;t good enough. In a perfect world Atheism becomes totally meaningless. No one cares what you don&#8217;t believe in, they care about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-07-27\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Reality Needs a Religion (and Why Atheism isn&#8217;t Good Enough)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[52,30,71,84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6367"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6494,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367\/revisions\/6494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}