Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
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.
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.
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of 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.
I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.
Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.
Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.