Concepts of God and Religion

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37. Please read what you have written

All you have done is dodged the question like a good little acolyte.

Gilbran's answer merely distracts, "I have found a truth." What is a truth? How do you identify it? What are the characteristics that differentiate a truth from a falsehood?

Look at your final paragraph where you demonstrate truth. Firstly

However, the truth exists.

This is just unsupported assertion.

Second you conflate "truth" with "fact" and illustrate it with lazily used language.

The truth is that the earth revolves around the sun.

Not true, not even a fact; the Earth rotates around it's axis, the earth orbits the sun. Even these facts can mislead e.g. the earth describes a complex spiral through space influenced by other gravitic, resistance and impact events. There is no absolute truth, just a description of what is happening.

Third you parrot a supposedly absolute with no understanding of that absolute.

The truth is that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, as Newton's third law states.

Like most people you miss that Newton's Laws are only an approximation. You ignore the important qualifier that "For ideal, non-elastic bodies for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction" and forget to note energy losses due to heat and other events. Newton's 3rd is not a "truth" it is but a working principle.

Lastly,

And the truth is also that we should treat all others as we would want to be treated if we were them.

The most bland piece of new-age posturing, the actual general name for it is "The Golden Rule" or, more descriptively, "The ethic of reciprocity" and it has flaws. Most obviously: If I were Adolf Hitler I would not be Adolf Hitler. If by some chance my mind became so warped by occupying his body that I became a genocidal dictator:
1) the I that I am now would not want to treat Adolf Hitler as I, personally would wish to be treated; and
2) the I that was Adolf Hitler would not want to be treated in the way that Adolf Hitler would treat me.
There are other problems with this restatement of the Golden Rule, amongst which is the fact that no philosopher would call it a truth!

Finally a paradox (suggested by my Sigoth); Perhaps the only truth is that every time we think we have grasped the meaning of the word it flutters away from us like a butterfly.