The Sacrifice of Truth for the Support of Our Agenda

How important is the truth?  How critical is it to not only a healthy existence, but any existence at all?  Is the truth negotiable or is the truth absolute?  Is there such a thing as truth, or is the concept of truth the figment of imaginations that needed something steady and sturdy to get them through life?

We can ask many questions about the truth and we can pick the concept apart quiet handily.  But history shows that the abandonment of truth creates space for the shifting contrivances of men.  And those are a sure path to a terrible destruction.  Truth is imperative.  Yet, we will redefine the truth, reshape the truth, spin the truth, or abandon it altogether if it does not support whatever our agenda might be.  If an agenda requires the modification or the elimination of the truth, that agenda is certain to destroy us at the very same time that we are building it.