Hardly a week passes, it seems, without yet another scientific study disparaging people of faith. This weeks study, ginned up by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley, dubiously concludes that the highly religious are less compassionate toward the needful than non-believers. Published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, the study defines compassion as an emotion felt when people see the sufferings of others which then motivates them to help, often at personal risk or cost.