
If there is no God to please then that makes a person God of their own reality. Your pleasure becomes paramount. The only "righteousness" or "goodness" is what pleases one's own senses. nikkas playing like atheists but really just non-practicing Protestant Christians trying to sound smart.
In fact, it would be more advantageous for a true atheist to become a clergyman, aka cult leader, to gain absolute control over and extract unlimited resources from their flock. Freedom of religion in a Godless existence means psychotic and oft-times schizophrenic insanity is constitutionally protected.
Kind of like that shyt Sam Harris said, if someone told you that they were willing to die for their belief that reciting phrases in Latin over a plate of pancakes before eating them would make those pancakes turn into Elvis Presley, you would have them committed to an institution.
But because a person does it over a cracker and calls themself a Catholic, we tolerate them.