Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it.
Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.
Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.
As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.
I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.
There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.
Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.