religion and sociopaths?

[Sophus]

I'm not even really sure if Hitler or Stalin would fit the psychological makeup of a sociopath.

[cornopean]

Thank you that's what I mean. Atheists are just as capable as everyone else of evil. The lack of basic morals doesn't exactly help it either. You are quite correct.

No it isn't what you said was

It's not very nice to compare sociapaths to those who are religious. Stalin and Hitler gave us all a taste of life under the atheist ideology and many millions were killed, so let's at least all be thankful for morals.

You implied Hitler was an Atheist. You were wrong and are now back peddeling. Theists seem to do this alot disavow anyone in thier faith who makes them look bad, and as often as not call them Atheists. I not sure if someone lied to you that Hitler was an Atheist or you read some dilibratly misleading information. It seems some believe that the ends justify the means. Lieing about Hitler falls into this often. Either that or you like many theists before you may have amazing mental gymnastic skills. Which is possible since you obvious back peddeling on this thread.

Whatever Hitler was, we know that the theories of Darwin were used by him and his ilk to justify their actions in WW2.  Gould is reported to have written:
"Darwin's theories came to be openly set out in political and military text books as the full justification for war and highly organized schemes of national policy in which the doctrine of force became the doctrine of Right."
Stephen Jay Gould, "William Jennings Bryan's Last Campaign," Natural History, November 1987, pp. 22-24.

I shamelessly stole this quotation from some site.  Haven't checked the reference.

[notself]

So what?  It does not prove anything other than Hitler counted on no one actually reading the book. Darwin wrote about natural selection not euthanasia or ethnic cleansing.

[Sophus]

Oh, believe me, the Holocaust would have happened with or without Darwin.