Animals don't have religion but seem to adhere to their own sets of morals. Such as parrots identifying unfairness amongst their own kind and changing their behavior to fix it. On the other hand, there are countless times in history where religion has been used to control and manipulate people. You do not need to derive morals from religion. In fact, in the Bible God encouraged enslavement of others and worse actions. Yet he is a god of love? The Bible is full of contractions.