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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 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.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.

Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.