1. There is a famous passage from "The Grand Inquisitor" section of Dostoevsky's The Brother's Karamazov, in which Ivan Karamazov claims that if God does not exist, then everything is permitted. 94 In other words, if there is no God, then there are no rules to live by. We can do whatever we want since there is no moral law that we are obligated to follow. We now live in such a permissive and avaricious society. The result is our Descent Into Hell;However;our contemporary society, realism privileges power over morality and religion as the ultimate driving force of history
2. So help me God" in our National Pledge, Judicial Oath, or any oath at all, we bring morality into our vocation or testimony. Morality may be loose, vague, indeterminate, at times subjective, but it affords us the general idea of the perfection we should aim at. 95 Morality itself is a sub-set of religion. There can be no good law without morality and no morality without religion. As Lord Denning wisely remarked: "Religion concerns the spirit in man whereby he is able to recognise what is justice; whereas law is only the application, however imperfectly, of justice in our everyday affairs. If religion perishes in the land, truth and justice will also;I submit that we are moral beings. Therefore, it is rational for us to give thought to morality and