text: So sorry AAJ - I didn't see this until just now (18 hrs. later).  To begin, you did a very good job answering your own question!  We do have a responsibility to seek the Truth (the Ten Commandments were the basis for that universal value).  And when one looks through the centuries of Judeo-Christian theological writings it is replete with the need for honesty as being a necessary attribute of Children of God.  This is what is so disturbing about the nature of our country at this point.  Just last night I read a very disheartening article in Time magazine that addressed the issue of the purposeful and destructive disinformation websites and radio stations that feed the most irrational, angry, and wild conspiracies ever heard of.  My heart sank as it showed how such thinking is not responsive to even fact-checking.  Distortion feeds distortion. I felt to me like all is lost.  The one hope I have is that if the religions of our country come together and denounce this, we stand a chance?