whom you accuse
I am not sure I made any "accusations". I used "pleasure" in the broadest sense of self-satisfaction. For example, a person may not believe in creation and yet out of love sacrifice their own life to save the life of their child. Such a noble act still satisfies ones desires and values.
How does one seek truth?
The search for truth has been a mystery for many philosophers. One might illustrate it in two ways. The first is a joke that was popular in the Army back in the 60s. A guy tried getting out of the Army by pretending to be nuts. He would pick up various scraps of paper, examine it, and discard it saying, "That's not it". After a while the doctors decided to give him a medical discharge. They placed his discharge papers on the ground. He picked them up and said, "That's it" and left.
The second illustration is a description of early gold prospectors that would find traces of gold in a stream. They would keep panning for gold upstream until the gold ran out which indicated that they were close to the source vein.
One might sharpen discernment skills by first examining the information from intentional liars such as unscrupulous salesmen, politicians and advertising. Being able to quickly see what is true and what isn't is a useful skill. Then one can move on to sincere liars such as those who parrot some axiom that they have found of comfort. Here the trick is that the information you get will be delivered with absolute sincerity. Social activists and many religious and political people make declarations with the conviction of intense feeling, but may not be actually accurate. This requires a bit more analytical skill to be able to take statements and subject them to tests of logic or external facts. For example, the declaration that socialism or communism is better because it is fair for everyone can be subjected to an examination of historical examples where it has been attempted. If then one concludes that what is said is false, one can extrapolate motive. the self-serving motive of an intentional liar can be obvious, The self-stimulation of the self-righteous or mistaken can be more difficult to plumb.
It is unfortunate that most seek truth only so far as it takes for them to settle into a comfortable position. Here simplistic declarations that all Democrats or Republicans are evil or all Catholics or Protestants are evil provide a dead end in the search for truth and one gives over to the comforts (pleasures) or "being right".
There are few the persevere in a search for truth. Consider an examination of Buddhism. If desire is the defect of man, is it necessary to suppress all desire? Does karma and reincarnation actually work to perfect individuals? I found Buddhism ultimately unsatisfactory because it failed to answer what I considered crucial questions such as how would karma and reincarnation work, what mechanism or entity supervises it, where did souls originate, or if it is wrong to show compassion if it interferes with someone's karma.
It can be helpful to consider basic questions before getting too entangled in the millions of ideologies that are out there. For example, you might ask if man is perfectable or is there something intrinsically wrong with people. If you come to see one or the other as true, you can focus more on those ideas that spring from that group. This is called successive approximation. However, one has to be careful because one might be mistaken. For this reason it can be helpful to question that which has been assumed.
I put up a web site christianpioneer.com for those who either had been disillusioned with how Christianity is often presented or were just curious. I am sure that there are similar sites for Buddhism, Islam, and other religions. There are also sites for those drawn to political, social, and philosophical realms in their search for truth.
My advice is keep searching and follow that which resonates within you as truth.