Denzel Washington associates religious believers with sociopaths (and murderers)

[muriel_volestrangler]

58. I scanned it for 'god', and also read the 'spirituality' section, after looking at the index

and, as you say, it doesn't say sociopaths are atheists. What it says is that psychology and religion agree that being altruistic makes for a well-balanced, happy person.

"Do I think that Denzel Washington, looking back at the book and after having played his character as a sociopath and atheist could
remember it that way? Yes."

I think you're giving a bigot far too much benefit of the doubt. The book's message is nothing like that. There is yet another interview out there, in which he says ""The majority of them (sociopaths) are atheists as well." (link goes to Beck's The Blaze, but I'm afraid that's where it's been quoted). Washington really is convinced that most sociopaths are atheists. And there's nothing in the book that we can see, or in any reviews, that imply anything remotely like that. If he thought that was the message to take from the book, it proves his prejudice - he must have had that as a suspicion before, and completely misinterpreted it.