Path: typhoon.sonic.net!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F678D9A.5E51DFE1@luckymojo.com> From: catherine yronwode Reply-To: cat@luckymojo.com Organization: Lucky Mojo Curio CO. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.magick Subject: Church of Reality Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 52 Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 22:14:38 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.204.150.134 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sonic.net X-Trace: typhoon.sonic.net 1063750478 209.204.150.134 (Tue, 16 Sep 2003 15:14:38 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 15:14:38 PDT Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.magick:356727 forwarded to alt.magick by cat yronwode, just because some regulars here may find it of interest: ----- For Immediate Release: Contact: Marc Perkel - Founder San Francisco, CA. 94112 http://www.churchofreality.org 415-987-6272 ~Date: 09/16/03 Marc Perkel announces today that he is in the process of applying for non-profit status to turn the Church of Reality into a 501c3 tax exempt church. Perkel hopes to have his application approved in the next 120 days. The Church of Reality (http://www.churchofreality.org) is a religion based on believing in everything that is real. "But what is real?", you might ask. Well - that's the sacred question of the Church of Reality. The Church doesn't attempt to define reality, but is dedicated to the pursuit of reality the way it really is. "What this church is about is to raise the status of reality in our daily lives," says Marc Perkel. "Too many people are ignoring reality and living an illusion. We are here to try to get people to challenge traditional beliefs on the basis of if they really are real or not." Members of the church are called "Realists" practicing "Realism." The official church greeting is "Welcome to the Real World." Perkel has written the "Sacred Principles" of the Church of Reality, which are similar to the Ten Commandments and they are available at the church's web site. "With non-profit status the Church of Reality will be able to take donations just like every other church. Once the funding starts coming in we well start promoting the concept of reality as a belief system. We think we will be competitive with the other major religions," says Perkel. "When you raise the question of which religion is real - you can't get any more real than reality."