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Can you think of any times when a sincere fear of god might have motivated folks to perpetrate acts of evil?

I suspect for this particular heuristic to feel sensible, the god needs to be one you happen to believe in. I would take precisely zero comfort in knowing that someone fears an invisible, likely bronze age supernatural authority with dozens of permutations of subjectively interpreted doctrine and morality.

The opposite is also true. A belief in a higher power is no more or less indicative of destructive behavior than a belief of a universe without

If you look back in history "fear of god" and religion are responsible for more of the most evil acts in it than almost anything.

Things done in the name of God or religion are not the same as being motivated by the fear of God. Plus, even so, your sentiment is generally not true - the modern western world was built on Judeo-Christian values.

Your comment is kind of a low key way of saying that people who don't 'fear' a God are immoral people.

Does that include religious people who don't have view their creator as malevolent?