http://3minutetheologian.org.uk/blog/2008/02/28/3mt-truthinesss-and-faithiness/ Words about God and life for the Attention Deficit generation Sat, 17 Jul 2010 11:24:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://3minutetheologian.org.uk/blog/2008/02/28/3mt-truthinesss-and-faithiness/comment-page-1/#comment-2435 Dick Reynoldson Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:24:50 +0000 http://3minutetheologian.org.uk/blog/2008/02/28/3mt-truthinesss-and-faithiness/#comment-2435 I was actually posing a question. If religious belief depends mainly on what I presume is a deeply held feeling of faith, and if truthiness may be defined as a gut feeling of conviction, unsupported by, or in spite of, relevant facts or logic, then isn't the thought process involved basically the same? I was actually posing a question. If religious belief depends mainly on what I presume is a deeply held feeling of faith, and if truthiness may be defined as a gut feeling of conviction, unsupported by, or in spite of, relevant facts or logic, then isn’t the thought process involved basically the same?

]]> http://3minutetheologian.org.uk/blog/2008/02/28/3mt-truthinesss-and-faithiness/comment-page-1/#comment-2418 Justin Lewis-Anthony Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:17:57 +0000 http://3minutetheologian.org.uk/blog/2008/02/28/3mt-truthinesss-and-faithiness/#comment-2418 Which is no more than an assertion, and not an argument (and assertions are the building blocks of truthiness of every kind) Which is no more than an assertion, and not an argument (and assertions are the building blocks of truthiness of every kind)

]]> http://3minutetheologian.org.uk/blog/2008/02/28/3mt-truthinesss-and-faithiness/comment-page-1/#comment-2417 Dick Reynoldson Sat, 17 Jan 2009 04:49:56 +0000 http://3minutetheologian.org.uk/blog/2008/02/28/3mt-truthinesss-and-faithiness/#comment-2417 Isn't religion the ultimate in truthiness? Isn’t religion the ultimate in truthiness?

]]> http://3minutetheologian.org.uk/blog/2008/02/28/3mt-truthinesss-and-faithiness/comment-page-1/#comment-516 Justin Lewis-Anthony Sat, 08 Mar 2008 08:57:24 +0000 http://3minutetheologian.org.uk/blog/2008/02/28/3mt-truthinesss-and-faithiness/#comment-516 How kind of you Bryan. I am very happy to take the credit for doing something well, but I should emphasise that I didn't invent "faithiness". As far as I can tell that was Dan Schultz, founder of the <a href="http://www.streetprophets.com/" rel="nofollow">Street Prophets</a>. However, the power of the word is that it describes something that was <em>already out there</em>, and for which we only had various circumlocutory ways of talking about it. "Faithiness"! A word whose time has come! How kind of you Bryan. I am very happy to take the credit for doing something well, but I should emphasise that I didn’t invent “faithiness”. As far as I can tell that was Dan Schultz, founder of the Street Prophets. However, the power of the word is that it describes something that was already out there, and for which we only had various circumlocutory ways of talking about it. “Faithiness”! A word whose time has come!

]]> http://3minutetheologian.org.uk/blog/2008/02/28/3mt-truthinesss-and-faithiness/comment-page-1/#comment-508 Bryan+ Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:50:38 +0000 http://3minutetheologian.org.uk/blog/2008/02/28/3mt-truthinesss-and-faithiness/#comment-508 As a fan of Stephen Colbert, I think this posting and your coining of the term "faithiness" is brilliant! I just might have to give this posting a plug on my blog. As a fan of Stephen Colbert, I think this posting and your coining of the term “faithiness” is brilliant! I just might have to give this posting a plug on my blog.

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