Faith: November 2008 Archives

Children are born believers in God, academic claims - Telegraph

"Dr Justin Barrett, a senior researcher at the University of Oxford's Centre for Anthropology and Mind, claims that young people have a predisposition to believe in a supreme being because they assume that everything in the world was created with a purpose.

"He says that young children have faith even when they have not been taught about it by family or at school, and argues that even those raised alone on a desert island would come to believe in God." (Via Don Singleton.)

Totally Non-political - John Derbyshire - The Corner on National Review Online

A sweet story about an abandoned pointer and the old man he lifted from bitterness and depression.

Hindu extremists' reward to kill Christians, as Britain refuses to bar members - Times Online

"Extremist Hindu groups offered money, food and alcohol to mobs to kill Christians and destroy their homes, according to Christian aid workers in the eastern state of Orissa." (Via Crunchy Con.)