A person's religious identity is the name of the religion that they identify themselves with. In this society people want to know, "What religion are you?" Generally they expect a one word answer with the name of a religion that expresses their religious identity. A person might say they are a Buddhist - or a Christian - or a Jew - or a Muslim - or a Hindu. These are examples of religious identities.
The Church of Reality provides a religious identity for Realists. The word Atheist for example doesn't describe what you believe in but rather what you don't believe in. The belief in reality isn't new but what this church does is to give a name to the belief in reality. One of the missions of this church is to establish the name Church of Reality and Realism as the practice of the religion so that when someone asks a Realist what religion they are - that they can say it and the listener has heard of it and understands what they mean. To that end the Church of Reality has a duty to realists through the Principle of Self Scrutiny to always preserve the intellectual integrity of this church so that people who truly believe in reality the way it really is can feel comfortable calling themselves Realists.
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