Religion may or may not be a motivator for obscene acts, just as with any other elitist, divisive ideaology. It certainly serves as a useful umbrella for the psychopath though.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'