God and Moral Obligation

Is there a connection between religion and morality? Ivan Karamazov, in Dostoevsky''s The Brothers Karamazov, famously declares that if God does not exist, then "everything is permitted." Most philosophers reject such a view and hold that moral truths do not depend on God. C.Stephen Evans argues that the truth lies somewhere between these two claims. It is not quite right to say that there would b...