My take is that morality is a human construct and subject to change

I obviously agree. To me, it’s terrifying to designate the ’source of morality’ as an entity which we may never understand.

The trolley car problems are a series of hypothetical situations presented to subjects of thought experiments. They involve various permutations of the basic situation ‘a trolley is going to hit people, what do you do?’ In one example, you have the option of pulling a switch to redirect the car onto another track, where it will kill one person instead of five. In another, you have to push a fat man onto the track.

They are sometimes referenced to show that people have a universal moral sense, because the many different subjects usually agree on what is an ethical course of action in each particular circumstance.

I know this blogger personally and he is one of the most moral and righteous “do no harm” people I have ever met. He is also a “born again” atheist, brought up in a mostly fundamental Christian setting. Does his moral sense derive from his atheism or is it a vestige of his Christian background? I don’t know, but I can’t imagine him being any other way. It’s certainly possible his moral sense is a product of his Christian upbringing.

But in any case, it’s still not “God” dictating his morality but the interpretation given to “God talk” by his early teachers, plus his own logical and instinctive assessment of the value of certain behavior.

My take is that morality is a human construct and subject to change. As is our concept of a higher being. That doesn’t mean there isn’t one, just that we are not capable of perceiving its totality. We are only capable of noticing our own characteristics and calling them “God.”

PS – What’s a “trolley car test”?