You see, flattop? Any gospel can sound reasonably convincing if it is spoken with utter assurance... (grin)

This is how Pol Pot got his people to kill about 1/3 of all the people in Cambodia. He spoke and commanded with utter assurance of his own rightness. He was officially an atheist, but I've never seen a more rigorously fundamentalist faith than that employed by the Khymer Rouge. It simply substituted other idols in the place of a spiritual deity, that's all. It was a god of dialectical materialism, taken to the final insane paroxysm of genocide.

Atrocities have been committed in the name of God...and against the name of God...over and over again in human history. Fanatics are not limited to only one side of the issue.