Zero Degrees of Empathy: A new theory of human cruelty: Amazon.co.uk: Simon Baron-Cohen. Whatever Jesus may or may not have said about the importance of loving one another, Christians have nevertheless often resorted to violence down the ages.
Martin Luther, for example, although a follower of a man who was born a Jew, lived as a Jew, and died a Jew, wrote a pamphlet entitled "Against the Jews" in which he called on his fellow Christians to burn synagogues and destroy Jewish homes. Four hundred years later, the young Adolf Hitler quoted Luther "to give his own Nazi racist views some respectability". The two Nazi scientists, pictured performing a cold water immersion experiment on an inmate of Dachau Concentration Camp, share at least one character trait with Luther: an absence of empathy. BookMooch: trade your books with other people. Project Gutenberg - free ebooks online download for iPad, Kindle, Nook, Android, iPhone, iPod Touch, Sony Reader.