The Church of Reality today has issued an edict challenging other
religions to speak out against the Bush administration plan to legalize
torture in the United States. The Church of Reality is a church based on
believing in everything that is real and does not recognize the
existence of any deities. In this edict the Church of Reality claims to
have a superior moral position to that of God believing religions such
as Christianity, Judaism, and Islam stating that it is the only religion
that takes a strong position against torture as part of their official
doctrine.

"We are Atheists", claims Marc Perkel, founder of the Church of Reality.
"Yet we have developed a stronger and more sophisticated set of moral
values than religions that are supposedly inspired by omnipotent
deities. If these deities actually exist then why can't they keep up
with the Atheists? We in the Church of Reality clearly understand that
legalizing torture is clearly wrong and we are willing to take a strong
position against it. The Theists however seem to be confused and unclear
about if torture is right or wrong. We in the Church of Reality are
challenging believers to pray about it to see if their God is as wise as
we mortal Realists are."

Perkel admits that part of the reason his edict is so provocative is to
inspire debate within the theistic world and get them inspired to take a
position against Bush's plan to legalize secret torture camps in foreign
countries who allow torture. "We in the Church of Reality are strongly
against this and we are trying to get the attention of our fellow
religions to get on board with this issue.", says Perkel. "We want them
to share in the glory of doing good things for the human race."

In the edict the Church of Reality vows to remember the lessons learned
from the concentration camps set up by the Nazis in Germany during World
War II and sees Bush's torture camps as a dangerous first step in that
direction. "This looks like the Holocaust to me", says Perkel who was
raised Jewish. "Judaism never impressed me much. But I do remember
seeing people with numbers tattooed on their forearms from being
Hitler's prisoners. What amazes me is why the Jews aren't ahead of me on
this."

Here is a link to the new edict challenging religions to decree torture
to be imoral.
http://www.churchofreality.org/wisdom/edicts_of_doctrine/

Here is a previous edict denouncing the legalization of torture by the
United States:
http://www.churchofreality.org/wisdom/current_event_edicts/

Please feel free to contact me. I will debate any religious leader live
on this issue. I ask everyone to spread this challenge to every place
you can. Please post this everywhere. We can not afford for America to
become the next Nazi Germany.

Marc Perkel
First One
Church of Reality

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