Updated: 04/20/08
THE TRUTH IS THE TRUTH
TRUTH IS NEITHER RELIGIOUS
NOR SECULAR. IT JUST IS!
I
had decided against including a section on Truth, because everyone who believes
something believes it because, to him or her, it IS the Truth. Obviously,
everything claimed to be the Truth is not. So, the purpose of this section is
to give some guidelines to help you know a bit more about the concept of
finding Truth, and how to separate fact from fiction.
The first thing one must
learn is, Truth is not a jealous god. It does not fear for itself. It is
confident within its own statement of facts. Truth does not need reams of
documentation and masses of authorities to establish itself. Rather, it needs
other truths upon which to base a new discovery of truth. Truth uses logical analyzation
of the proven facts and logical projections of those facts to arrive at
conclusions that are both logical and reasonable. From those conclusions flow
new insights into new truths.
On the other hand, the
untruth or lie is extremely jealous and fearful. The lie always furnishes large
amounts of “Proof” by quoting its own authorities and relying on popular
support (testimonies). The lie always directs one’s attention away from the
central issue rather than dealing with the Truth itself. The untruth uses the
beliefs of well-known personalities as proofs rather than depending on the facts
of the matter.
Part of the defense of the
lie is to attack the opposition, that is, the truth tellers. The lie refuses to
listen to any opposition, examination, or contrary proof against it. If the lie
cannot contradict the factual statements it fears and which shines the light of
truth upon the lie, then the untruth followers will attack the statement maker,
the Truth teller. They do it in business and politics as well as in religion.
Always be suspicious when someone personally attacks the opposition rather than
attacking the problem itself.
Truth has never been
employed in the censorship business. It has never been a jailer. It has never
burned others at the stake. It has never severed heads. It has never tortured.
It has never resorted to mob action. It has never burned crosses. Truth has
never been unreasonable.
On the other hand, religious
and political untruth, finds its main business is to propagate its lies by
censorship, by jailing, by denying justice, by being unreasonable and by
attacking the person that holds opposite views. When it has the power to do so,
it propagates itself by tortures and painful deaths. The lie lives in the
darkness of ignorance and calls ignorance "innocence or patriotism."
Belief and acceptance of the untruth is called good and a virtue. This is true
in religion, business and politics. The watchwords of the untruth are BELIEVE
and OBEY.
First, the Truth makes its
home in the sunshine of knowledge, facts and intelligent thinking. The enemy of
Truth is untruth - the lie. The enemy of knowledge is ignorance, arrogance, and
usually - greed. The only weapon Truth has, or knows how to use, is the weapon
of facts and logic. Truth does not reveal herself by stamping out the untruth.
Truth is bashful and reveals herself slowly to diligent Thinkers who search her
out, who court the beautiful lady of Truth. Which brings us to the second bit
of knowledge one must know about Truth.
Truth is hard to find and
difficult to know. One may find a truth, but it takes many difficulties,
experiments and hard honest Thinking before the facts are gathered together.
Each piece of the puzzle must be put in its proper place so the whole picture
of that particular truth can then be demonstrated to the world (or to those who
will see and have the intelligence to understand).
One must prepare to be a
seeker of Truth. Doctors of medicine and health study long and hard to learn
the Truths and proofs, which their predecessors have passed on. It is a long
laborious task. But it was these predecessors who struck a telling blow to the
lie that the Devil or God made men sick or diseased, or smallpox could be
prevented or cured by prayer to a God who gave the disease to man in the first
place.
Astronomers must master the
tools of their trade and learn the accumulated Truths and facts before they are
ready to enlarge the storehouse and puzzle of Truth. These astronomers have
dispelled the lies that the sun stood still at the demand of a Jewish general,
or that the earth was created in six days. In fact, they proved that it could
not possibly have been created at all. Rather, the earth evolved and collided,
as do all planets and suns. They proved Joshua knew nothing of astronomy, nor
did the Holy Ghost who inspired Joshua's biographer.
The biologists and
zoologists remain hard at work studying, learning, discovering and unraveling
the mysteries of life and evolution. They have dispelled the myth that man was
created a little over six thousand years ago, or that man could have ever been
created. They have driven out of civilized minds the cockatrice and the ass
that talks.
The chemists with their
computer models, DNA and gene splicing, have scared us with the new Truths they
bring to the surface of the mind. But they have rid us forever of the myth that
water could be turned into wine by words, or a pot of flour eaten from every
day could last forever. Neither could a boy's lunch feed thousands with bushels
or food left over.
The physicists have shown us
some of the fearful Truth of the sub-atomic world, but now we know for a truth,
an iron ax head did not float at the command of a wild man, nor did a gentle
man walk upon the waves without falling or getting wet.
The fact is, and this brings
us to our third item one must know about Truth, Truth has utility. That is, a
Truth can be used to better the existence of mankind. Truth is not just
knowledge it is also a tool. Man is a tool user. He can use almost any Truth or
fact in the world to his benefit if he uses his thinking ability.
Man finds microbe
"b" will eat microbe "a." Microbe "a" causes
plants to die, so man injects microbe "b" into the plant and the
plant lives and produces healthy edible food. Steel, heavy as it is, when made
in certain watertight configurations will displace more water than it has weight,
so he makes steel boats. An explosion produces tremendous force, so man
confines the explosion and makes an engine to run labor saving and
transportation devices. I have read of no Truth that has not, or cannot be used
to the benefit of mankind.
But, what is the benefit to
mankind of the untruth, of the lie? Little to none I know about. Of what
benefit to anyone but the priests and preachers is the lie that a man can be
saved from a nonexistent hell to a nonexistent heaven? What is the benefit to
mankind that an invisible disease called “sin” can be cured by an invisible
prescription called “salvation?”
What is the benefit to
mankind of the claim (and lie) that terrorists are everywhere and we need to
take away every ones freedoms and liberties in order to fight a war on these
invisible enemies?
The utility of the untruth
is it brings untold wealth to the tellers of the lie. But to the believers in
the untruth, it not only relieves them of their substance, but worse, it robs
them of the very quality, which sets man apart from the beasts of the field and
forest. It robs man of the ability to think for himself, to trust his own mind.
At the least, the untruth makes men unsane. It can even make men insane!
The fourth idea you need to
know about Truth is it is not isolated. ALL Truth is connected. One Truth leads
to another Truth. One Truth builds upon another Truth. One Truth supports
another Truth. A single Truth is the next step, which leads us onward and
upward. A centerpiece of the Truth puzzle cannot be put into place or
understood until some of the surrounding sides have been connected together and
understood.
Many Truths had to be fitted
together before man was able to utilize atomic energy. Fire was the first step,
then mining, smelting, metallurgy, mathematics, physics, chemistry, etc… In
fact, every present aspect of our mechanical, physical and chemical science had
to be developed before even the THEORY of atomic energy could be put forward.
Atomic energy development could not have come earlier than it did in our
civilization because there were mountains of Truth, which had to be available
BEFORE it was possible to even THINK about it. One step in Truth leads to the
next step of Truth.
Where do these steps lead?
Where is Truth taking us? For one thing, the Truth of atomic energy is taking
us to new Truths about ourselves and about our social relations with each
other. "Isms" are clashing with other "isms." Religions are
pitted against other religions. Philosophies clash. Fantasies clash with other
fantasies. Hanging over all these clashes are two new Truths.
First, we know for certain,
man can now destroy all intelligent life on this planet, if not ALL life. We
can do so quickly by nuclear warfare, or even chemical or electrical warfare.
In fact, man can now disintegrate the whole planet earth with electrical
weapons. For the first time in the history of our civilization, we are also
faced with another Truth. We cannot "prove" our beliefs, our
religions, our "isms," or our fantasies by destroying those who say
our claims are not true. Those who say our religions and "isms" are
not true also possess atomic and chemical weapons.
Some die-hard believers
might be willing to die for their beliefs and "isms," but few are
also willing to kill off their own children, grand children and indeed the
whole human race just to stop others from saying their religion or
"ism" is false. Only those whose minds have totally confused fantasy
with reality, and who thinks God wishes them to push the button are crazy
enough to PUSH THE BUTTON.
We must not let this happen!
Only about half of the population of the world is claimed as belonging to any
of the major organized religions. When the figures in the United States are
studied, one finds that organized religious bodies claim that about sixty plus
percent of the population belongs to one of the main religious bodies. This
means support for the major "isms" and religions are on the decline
in the USA. However, fanaticism in favor of one religion or another is not dead.
In fact, fanaticism seems to be on the up swing. One can witness on radio, TV
and in the newspapers the rise of fanaticism for Islam and fundamentalist
Christianity. And all of it is based on ignorance, belief and the refusal of
believers to think, honestly and clearly. All Religious and political
Fanaticism is based on lies (on the untruth). THINK!
Hopefully, the thinking
people in all parts of the world can keep these fanatical religious leaders
from gaining control of the governments and the triggers of the nuclear and chemical
means of total destruction. The Truth has led us to the point where ALL men
must BEGIN TO THINK - or die. To think is to question the teachings of our
religions, our "isms" and our governments. To question, is to doubt
the impossible and improbable claims of our religions and governments. This is
where Truth is taking us.
So, we come to a second
Truth to which atomic energy has led us. All other religions and
"isms" can PROVE that our religions and "isms" are false.
And we can prove that their religions and "isms" are false. The
problem is, they pay no attention to our proofs against them, and we pay no
attention to their proofs against us. The fact of the matter is, ALL religions
are wrong in their basic claims. All religions are false if they depend on
"BELIEF" instead of facts and honest logical thinking to project and
prove their doctrines. Truth does not depend on belief. Truth depends upon
known facts. Anyone who looks at his religion in light of the known facts of
science, psychology, physics, surgery, chemistry, medicine, geology, cosmology,
mathematics, nano-technology, ethics and morality, or any other factual
discipline, that person will find his religion to be false.
Once man thinks about these
things, he can no longer hold fundamentalist views. He becomes more
intelligent, more in harmony with the Truth, and more liberal in his thinking
about the problems facing mankind. He becomes more willing to sit down and work
out the problems with others, more willing to compromise in order to get rid of
a few of the world’s problems over which the fundamentalists of all religions
would go to war and ultimately destroy mankind and all life on this our mother
earth.
Truth has led us to this
point in the evolution of our civilizing process:
WE
MUST THINK OR DESTROY OURSELVES.
RELIGIOUS BELIEF IS THE ULTIMATE WEAPON
OF MANKIND'S SUICIDE.
Mankind has been led by
Truth to a plateau. The Truth can take us no farther until we have resolved the
problems of our philosophical differences, our religions and our "isms."
From this position mankind will emerge as dead, or he will emerge with a new
respect for himself, for others and above all, he will emerge with a new
respect for TRUTH, RATIONAL THINKING and HONESTY.
I hope man will emerge as a
new mankind and continue his evolution. Who knows what man may one day become?
Let us hope mankind sheds his superstitions and moves on even as the snake
sheds its skin and moves on. Man must evolve as individuals first and then as a
society. Man must learn to look inside of himself for answers to the puzzles of
the universe.
One scary truth that we must
not ignore is that religion tries to present itself as good, moral and correct
in all of its positions, claims and statements. And they will jail you or kill
you to prove their point. Religion has tried to lay claim to all things that we
call wholesome and good. Those who oppose the church and its beliefs, are
classified by the believers as ungodly, corrupt, led by the devil, and
deserving of the most horrible, dire and tragic consequences. We need to think
about that!
The facts of the matter will
establish that it has been Honest Clear Thinkers who have given mankind its
most wholesome concepts, laws, science and morals. It is these men and women
who hold TRUTH and JUSTICE as their guiding principals, who have saved the USA
from the tyranny and injustices of the religions, their governments, their
inhumane beliefs and their desire to rule over us.
These men and women of TRUTH
and JUSTICE need our support in a special way in the tough days ahead. HONESTY
needs to push BELIEF off of its throne of influence and respectability in the
United States of America. We must place Honesty, Justice and Clear Thinking on
the throne!
WE MUST LISTEN TO TRUTH AND
WE MUST HEED WHAT WE HEAR!
Thomas E. Blaylock
Copyright: 10/18/04
Updated: 04/20/08