A new religion

 I think the world needs a new religion.  It needs it to unite all of the other religions without each religion having to give up anything.  In order to do this, the new religion needs to be a superset of the existing religions.  I think this can be done by worshipping the truth without trying to state what that truth is.  This forces the acknowledgement that there is a single truth out there, but allows each person to define for themselves what that truth is.  The only thing that people have to give up is the idea that their truth is the real truth, and that anyone who believes differently is wrong.

I'd like to call this new church "The Church of Truth", but that's already taken (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Truth), but maybe that's okay, since the word 'truth' already has connotations of Christianity.  Maybe we should call it "The Way of the Truth", or "The Path of Truth".  These evoke a similarity with Taoism, which is simply "The Path" (or so I've been told), but that may be okay since Taoism is not nearly as aggressive at trying to convert people to it's ways than some of the other major religions.  In fact, if Taoism already allows people to maintain their own belief system (I should probably research that), then maybe Taoism is already the thing that I'm trying to propose.

The key tenets of this new religion would be:

• The truth exists.
• The truth is important
• We don't claim to know the truth, but we do claim that no one else knows the truth either
• Each person's journey to understand the truth must be respected

This gives us a couple of benefits:

• It prevents any one religion from claiming that they alone know the truth and that everyone else is wrong.
• It places a moral value on the truth, making lying a sin, hopefully causing those who lie for a living (think politicians, advertisers and lawyers) have moral qualms about straying too far from the truth.  (I don't want to malign these professions too much.  Many of them are merely making sure that their side of the truth is represented, but, and this is just my opinion, these are professions in which outright lying is rewarded more than in most other professions.)

I remember reading once that Cyrus the Great, founder of the Persian Empire, placed a high value on honesty, and I think this may have contributed to the greatness of his empire.

I see all of the current religions, then, as being branches of this all-encompassing religion, whether they acknowledge it or not.  After all, every religion out there is simply representing their theory on what the truth is.  All that would be needed is for a majority of the members of each religion to acknowledge the validity of this "container" religion and to respect that choices of other people to follow other paths.

I see this new religion as a web page, where there is one one parent page and then nested sets of "paths" or "ways".  Each major religion, if they so choose, could create a "path", and then members of that church can add their own sub-paths.  In this respect, I think it's kind of like Hinduism or Islam where different gurus or imams have their own followings.

Of course, not everyone will want their views published in that way.  You wouldn't have to have a sub-path on this web-page in order to have your belief be a part of this church, it's just a mechanism that people could use to organize and share their viewpoints.