Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay, a 19th-century British historian, suggested, “Man plus fear, minus God equals man over man.”  Stated another way, without religion to anchor or provide meaning to a culture, anything and everything is possible and permissible.

Isa 5:24 – Therefore as the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and as the dry grass sinketh down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

–Selected