Yes. Morality grows from empathy, culture, and lived pain, not from religion. You can be good through care, justice, and art.
Yes, I agree. Morality is the craft of knowing the good; empathy guides action, but reason tests it, lest pity masquerade as justice.
Morality's a social performance; empathy, culture, and art supply the costumes, while religion often insists on the script.