We All Have Our Own Truth

Parklife has posted some interesting comments that raise some major questions I thought would be best addressed as their own topics. This is in response to the following:

"You use a statistic in a particular way to convey your point.
Which is great. But, at the end of your response you write that people first
decide what to believe, then dig up support for that."

I apologize, I was not accurate in what I said about people first deciding what they want to believe and then finding support for it. I'm struggling with how to express this because I can not think of an single term that describes people who do this. And this opens up a entirely new topic that askes the question, what is truth?

Secular wisdom has been teaching us that truth is relative, and can be different for each person. My "truth" may not be the same as your "truth". Our culture is so saturated with this belief that even Christians--with the Bible as the basis of universal truth--have come to believe that truth is relative.

What this leads to is people first deciding what they'd like as the truth, and then they search to find evidence to support their "truth". The problem with this is that most times the truth is not true, and the evidence does not stand up to examination. However, believing this way makes people happy, and that's what's important (said sarcastically), isn't it? (NO!! It's not.)

Here's the problem: We no longer seek universal truth. We seek individual truth. But can there be such a thing as individual truth? What happens to a society that has only individual truth and no universal truth?