>Correct me if I'm wrong but I bet you have read a lot of Dostoyevsky. Surely not time wasted.

When I was younger, yes. Still haven't read the Idiot.

Connected to the case in point - the thesis in "Crime and Punishment" that "if there is no God, then everything is permitted" (note that this is late XIX century and many of these ideas are still morphing) is one of the explanations for "godless people have no morals".

As usual, I don't remember which side did Dostoyevsky take in the end, but he surely did present the case thoroughly.