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Nice rant! Got to explore this statement of yours a little further, though.
>"There is only ONE thing - survival based on TRUTH."
I agree with you except that these days the word "truth" has to be defined. So many have fallen into the post-modernist trap that truth is relative or that truth can be personal and subjective. That's a lie.
Truth is objective and absolute.
Without a correct understanding of what the word "truth" means, it is impossible to make meaningful claims concerning truth.
So here (in a very condensed form) is a definition of truth that has served me well for many years.
Truth is a second order to facts; by which I mean that truth is the 100% accurate COMMUNICATION of facts (existence and events, which are the first order) by one sentient being to another. It is not the facts themselves, which simply ARE, whether communicated or not. Hence we talk of, the truth ABOUT xyz. Furthermore, since no human has the ability to know and communicate anything with 100% accuracy, it follows that truth is an attribute of an eternal, omniscient, omnipresent, sentient being. Which is why Jesus, who is God-become-man, is able to claim with absolute authority, to be THE TRUTH. Apart from divine revelation/communication it is not possible for humankind to know truth - at least, not with any certainty, since no human is eternal, omnipotent and omnipresent such that he may claim to know anything with any degree of certainty. We cannot even claim to know ourselves (if we're honest) never mind those existences and events beyond ourselves.
Therefore, by faith, we believe Jesus is God-made-man and that He is THE TRUTH, THE LIVING WORD, THE LIFE and THE LIGHT and that everything He is, says and does is necessarily TRUTH.