Objective truth? You think that is possible?

I think that truth is a very subjective thing. Your truth is contextualized by your social and cultural capital. How you see situations is often through a certain veil. That veil or perspective is never objective but very subjective built upon various agendas and motivations. Anyone that says his version is the perfect version or his version or account of something is the most objective one in the process of emphasizing that particular truth in fact subjugate the objective stance that it tries to take.

I'm thinking about pastoral workers. I think that pastoral workers cannot see a lot of tangible benefits usually in what they are doing. As such, there is a form of coping mechanism that these people need to engage in. They are dealing with intangible concepts and theories that seem very difficult to be proven; eg. the existence of God. Due to that, they need a form of structure in their lives. Like a certain sociological professor who mentioned in his blog that pastors preach because they need a form of tangible routine to cope with the intangible product that they are developing. I think perhaps I could bring that idea abit further?

Pastors preach to cope with the intangible product development and they preach a certain version of truth and required it to be an unquestioned version of truth because that version of truth, though socially constructed, becomes a form of psychological pillar that they can build their self-worth on. But like what I mentioned, when there is an overt emphasis on what they believe to be true, are they not in fact de-emphasizing the objectification of the truth?

And I think that's why church organizations around the world try to have more activities during the week. The church is becoming a social organism because the people running it needs these structures to increase their level of self-worth. Can we allow ourselves such a perspective, to think of church in this way? Are all the events that are run by the church a form of coping mechanism to deal with the need for the development of self worth and aid in the development of identity? So when you look at the sociology of the church life, you get the idea that apart from the spiritual education that the congregation may receive through structured events but in fact could such structured events be the manifestation of the need for pastoral workers to cope with the intangible product development that they are engaging in?

I believe that the church life or christian life is a very fascinating phenomenon. And I don't think that we should just accept what we perceive as the norm..but we should in fact embark on a process of deconstructing it. I think when you do that..you are left with more questions than answers and that's what makes God so amazing and so unfathomable. If at the end of the day we are left with even more questions and doubts than answers I think we are definitely on the right track. Isn't that what God is like? If you have an answer to everything then you are defining God..which in fact isn't the very concept of God undefinable? I feel that this journey with God needs to be built on more doubt than absolutism.