One absolute truth

In this post, I'd like to discuss about 'truth'. What do you mean by truth? Let me give an analogy.

There was a biscuit in the table. A stole it. Now, D said that A stole it, while another 2 persons, E said B stole it while F said C stole it. Obviously, the 'fact' that A stole it is the 'truth'. It's impossible to claim that all three are guilty depending on which one you want them to be guilty! In this analogy, the definition is 'truth' is clear. Truth simply means 'what is true'! It is non sensical to say that both D and E are true, or D, E and F are all true since they have made a mutually exclusive claims!

Well, this particular claim can be extended to assess religions. There are many religions in this world, but they provide us with 'mutually exclusive' explanations with the nature of reality! Hence, there must be only one that is true!

One skeptic argument might be : "Well, it is possible that all of them are wrong!" Let's denote this objection A for the time being.

Another skeptic argument would be : "Well, this nature of 'one truth', perhaps is only true for the material world, and we can't extend it towards an immaterial or spiritual realm in which explanations that seems to contradict might coexists in some unknown manner." Let's call this objection B.

I will deal with this two objections below. But first, let's start with objection B since it is easier to tackle with. Well, to say that "contradicting explanations might coexists in some unknown manner" is to push your imagination a little too far! And how can one be so sure with the statement itself when it can't be understood by logic that two contradicting explanations can coexist? I would call this being "skeptic just for the sake of rejecting the argument". This kind of skepticism doesn't have any benefit at all and is not worth considering. It is like being skeptic about all things, even with our own existence. This makes me recall to the famous skeptic claim that even our very existence can't be confirmed, the reason being that we are connected to the outer environment just via our senses. And how do we know they're not manipulated? Well.. there's no way we can't prove this! And hence this is not worth considering. It's being skeptic just for the sake of being skeptic and if you apply this way of thinking, then you can simply reject every proofs, evidences, whatever it is. Indeed, this view of skepticism is an age old view, and it has been refuted. The biggest failure about skepticism is that it positions itself in a self-defeating stance. One question it can't answer is "Why am I not skeptical towards my own skeptic?".

Now, let's go to objection A which claims that all religions are wrong. There are 2 parts to this question.

The first part, we assume that there is truth, but it is different from what that has been presented in all religions and all its scriptures. Here again, there is simply no basis in asserting this claim. To think this way is to be too imaginative and it can be compared as saying "The colour of my hat is not black, not white, not red, not....(mentioning all the colours there is)".
This is the power of negation statements! One can simply boast a statement by applying the negation of everything that has been present! It's like saying "The solution to the question is a number, not present in the real or even complex plane, or any complete planes known to have contain any numbers".

For the second part, there isn't any truth! All religions perhaps are made up by humans, in order to teach us morals, etc. This would extend to another big issue that I would discuss in a separate post. But in the meantime, if we reject objections A and B, then we came back to the conclusion that religion is not something relative! Indeed, it is something objective, something absolute independent of our subjective viewpoints!

If we understand it this way, therefore, it's not merely a 'choice' that we make, to adopt a particular religion as our religion amongst other various religions offered in this world! Religion is indeed an objective thing! It's something that relates to the truth! Just like any detective stories, think that all of us are 'detectives', in which we must investigate the truth, amongst all possible suspects.

I think this issue was obvious, and sometimes it really upsets me to find that some people still regard religion as something not more than 'traditions'. It's something like a 'custom', and this gives the idea that we are the one that actually determine which one is correct, that religion is indeed no more than a 'choice'. It's so upsetting that many people, say, in some region in Asia, still believes that religions like Christianity indeed came from the Western countries, and they refuse to accept it. I think that their reasoning is unacceptable, for they're treating it as a choice!
Recall back to the example I gave on top of this post. We can't say that B stole the biscuit just because of his races, or because of his 'bad morals' although it can be an indication, but still, it talks nothing about objectivity! People who deny a particular religion just because they see the action of the some of the individuals behaving badly and thus quickly concluded that the religion is false, actually they're allowing their subjectivity come into play! Well, whether you believe it or not, A still is the one who stole the biscuit! It's truth and not a choice! We shall not judge by external factors such as traditions, people, etc! In fact, we shall examine the claims of the religion itself!

Well, I hope would straighten our minds a little bit, and will trigger us to think and search more information before we conclude upon anything.

To sum up, there is a one universal truth! Truth is something absolute, not depending on our perceptions or opinions or anything.