Truth is by nature exclusive

Thus far, it seems we have covered a couple ideas about truth that may be hard to accept.
First, the truth is true whether you like it or not.
Second, (in the entry about Halo and the Arbiter finding that what he believed was false) what you believe to be truth may not be true. (And so it is important that we continue to always seek truth, whatever our backgrounds may be - Atheist, Buddhist, Christian, etc., and in all [important] areas of life. If what we believe to be true is wrong, we'll move away from what is false and towards truth, and if what we believe to be true is true, we'll grow deeper in our understanding of that truth.)

Here's another truth about truth that I think can be hard to accept: Truth is by nature exclusive.
For example, if you paid your landlord for this month's rent already, but your landlord said you only paid half, both can't be true. Someone is wrong.

Sure, it'd be really nice if we could all be right. One popular religious belief is to say that everyone has their own way to God. I wanted to believe that myself. I really did. That way no one is left out. We can all be happy. No one is wrong. Everyone is right. We can all go merrily on our own ways.

However, if you think about, it's actually more likely that everyone is wrong rather than everyone is right. Religions strongly declare things (core beliefs) that contradict each other. How can two contradicting statements both be right? That would turn our world upside down.

Also, in the end, those that say every way is right (the inclusive group), are saying that those who say there is only one way (the exclusive group) are wrong. The inclusive group are excluding the exclusive group, and are exclusive themselves. It's kind of funny how that works. Those folks who criticize people for saying that they believe one way is right are themselves declaring that there is only one way to look at things.

Truth is by nature exclusive (...whether we like it or not.)