Truthiness, a term coined by Stephen Colbert, is defined by Wiikipedia as "a quality characterizing a 'truth' that a person making an argument or assertion claims to know intuitively 'from the gut' or because it 'feels right' without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts."
Read the original editorial at (http://www.episcopalcafe.com/handling-the-truth/) The Episcopal Cafe.
A church in my neighborhood is trying, with some difficulty, to get to the truth of this same topic of who is welcome, how we define them, how we can accept everything the modern world throws at us, simply through discussions and the reading of the scriptures, Old and New Testament.
Others have banded together to form new churches based on truthiness alone. "We don't feel as if any of this is right for 'us' and we will fight by flight - refusing to debate except on the podium of truthiness first and foremost."
It's simple to me. "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another."
