What happens in a world where belief systems overtake truth
systems, and this reverse in logic seems to be normative rather than unusual?
Belief systems, or faith systems, are vitally important when they
are founded on truth, and worthless when they have no boundaries. Those who
argue for determining truth via belief would argue that we can believe any
truth we want, and that no other person has the freedom to establish truth in
our personal lives.
We often treat truth as relative instead of absolute, cultural
instead of cross-cultural, and archaic instead of progressive. Those who think
this way have abandoned all logic, and have replaced God with themselves as god,
and are the reason of the mass amount of confusion that exists in the United
States today.
Truth is something that cannot be created, manipulated, or
“loopholed.” It stands as an absolute that will prove itself in time. There is
no truth according to Dave, or a political party, or any particular
denomination.
Those who want to live successful lives need to focus on finding
truth and allowing the truths they find to guide their decision-making.
There are those areas that demonstrate easy “truths,” such as
when it rains you get wet, to those truths that take a bit of discovery, such
as knowing for certain that the moon is not made of cheese. Some of these
“truths” will not matter in our day-to-day lives, but there are many truths
that do matter.
Part of the discovery process includes logic, for we are logical
beings. For example, the coffee mug from which I am drinking today was
designed, manufactured, and distributed by someone who had a specific purpose
in mind for this mug. This mug can do many things, but its design is best for
holding some sort of hot or cold liquid. I do not need to use this mug as it
was intended because it is my mug, but my choice to abuse the mug does not
change the truth as to how and why it was created.
I find it interesting that those who claim to be in the “science”
fields like to reject the simple for the complex, when the simple is all the
explanation that is necessary.
If we would all agree about the origin of the mug, then we, too,
must look at the universe we live in and logically determine that its
complexity demands a designer and creator who also did these things with a
specific purpose in mind.
The rich, poor, famous, and infamous are all the same when it
comes to truth. None of them can create it, a majority of them cannot determine
it, and eventually it will break the deceptive grip it has held through the
worshipping of one’s own beliefs.
Trying to prove that we are all accidental blobs of protoplasm
has no value, and will only lead us to further bondage.
