Its not a very far leap to : If God does not exist then all is permitted ( including perhaps this pope? ( along with nazism/ communism/Muslim terrorism/ obama/ HilLIARy/ sorozNazi/ BLM/ OWS, pelousy/ and all the rest of the leftist dictator- wannabes). Dostoevsky
But if all is permitted then we tend to carom into each other like frenetic particles in an atom smasher. We are a social species: All laws stem from that into how we must behave to be able to get along with each other.