conservatives talk about postmodernism…and maybe they miss the point
for many years i was under the illusional impression that life was all about answers. finding them. deconstructing them. reconstructing them. claiming them. and forcefully ‘sharing’ them. i have since come to a different conclusion. (this is in response to the video below). when life becomes a journey about finding answers, the journey ends, most of the time abruptly. when life is learning what it looks like to ask the right questions, well then, the journey never ends. because then one question might lead to another, which will then lead to another and the journey becomes this scandalously beautiful roam of discovery after discovery. life becomes less about the end of the journey and about the journey itself. there were certain ‘other’ people who thought answers were the most important thing too — hitler, napolean, genghis khan and many others. not that finding answers isn’t important, but the issue is when we think the answers we find are the ‘ultimate answers’ everyone should find. when we think our truth is everyone else’s truth. we take something tribal and make it unversal, and in some instances, that is a good thing, like in the way of salvific understanding. but if we stop asking questions, then we stop growing. some of the questions have led me to this place that i have come to where i see the truth of god hidden in conversations, lyrics, the bhavagad gita, the bible, the sufis’, and many other places and peoples. and so what we must come to see is that our definitions can’t become everyone else’s unless we are comfortable with committing a sort of mental/verbal holocaust which is what we do when we tell people they must believe certain creeds or go to a mythical place called hell. we are saying that they must see their inferiority as a person (which is nowhere in the gospels) or die. i have heard that somewhere. and so can we agree that life is about discovery, about the journey, about the questions and the intrigue that lead us into places uknown. and those places uknown can change us for the good, but we have to be willing to let go. are you willing to let go?
This video showcases some of the well-known people within conservative christianity.
