Is this misconception wholly because Dr. Greer and the skeptics have enough of a divine connection to UNDERSTAND that love is an even more powerful motive, without understanding that love itself is WHOLLY a product of a divine connection? Without the divine connection, love ceases to be a motive, and the ONLY motive remaining, is the criminal one? Is that the case?

This is very much the case. Love is the point of existence, so much so that it is taken for granted and does not even enter most discussions. This is because it is so much a part of human behavior, it is so natural it is almost like breathing, that people want to be in polite company working together in a kind of friendship role to overcome challenges and to encourage growth and accomplishments, even as people might want to have individual achievement and a demonstrated prowess to feel good about themselves, that they are accomplishing things of value, and so on. It is usually the case people are striving to achieve the love and praise of others, not the glory of a tyrant’s power because they have risen to the top and can do anything they like of a savage nature to their underlings, but yet that is the end stage of even highly intelligent beings who become loveless through corruption. It will not end in glory, but in depravity, a criminal level mentality of "winner take all whether anyone else likes it or not with rights held only by the mighty who will be uniformly selfish and uncaring about the suffering and deprivation of others they may cause in their rise to power."