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How does religious realism interpret the claim that God exists?

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The Greek philosopher Plato — Realism Plato, marble portrait bust copied from an original of the 4th century bce; in the Capitoline Museums, Rome.

In the context of the philosophy of religion, religious realism interprets the claim that God exists as an assertion of objective reality. According to this view, the statement "God exists" is true if and only if God exists, regardless of whether any human beings believe in that existence or attempt to understand it.1

Unlike antirealist perspectives, which may view religious claims as relative to specific social practices, language games, or cultural constructs, realism maintains that God’s reality is independent of human efforts or perspectives. Therefore, for the religious realist, the truth of the claim is not contingent upon human belief or the internal rules of a particular "form of life," but rather on the objective state of reality itself.1