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I think the reasoning which suggests that morality can exist independent of religion is fairly simple. Religions couldn't have been formed until humans were living in societies. A society cannot be sustained without some kind of morality, to deter abuses of the social model - nothing would induce me to live next door to a neighbour, if I was constantly afraid that he would come over and murder me. Hence, if society preceded religion, and if morality preceded society, then it follows that morality preceded religion, and is therefore not inseparable from religion.