Easter Truth

To say that there is no such thing as absolute truth is to make an absolute truth statement.

To survey the landscape of various religions and philosophies and propose that there is no one way to understand God or the world but rather that they all point to the same ultimate reality is to simply add more clutter to the already over-developed landscape. In the attempt to take away an exclusive meta-narrative, you have simply fabricated a new one.

To say that it is up to the individual to Golden-Corral style buffet their way through the religious line, selecting bits and pieces of each religion as they go, is to atomize the individual and to spay and neuter all choice. Choice only matters if the choice has consequences. To say that it's all the same anyway is to disempower people and make all choice meaningless. I find empowering people a very small and very secular goal, but even by this measure religious relativism cannot stand up. Ergo, the religious relativist movement has only further served to commodify religion and make it another option among the many--further isolating the individual who was created for a story bigger than him/her self and set out looking for one. Instead of purpose, the pilgrim simply finds more products to choose from.

Easter demands to be dealt with on it's own terms, not as part and parcel of a patch-work of personalized religious choices. This event is radically particular, radically re-orienting, and, indeed, radically relativizing: everything else in the universe must either be understood through this center, or it will not be understood at all.