The Development of a Conscience

We are born with an innate sense of right and wrong which needs developing and nurturing. To ignore the promptings to take the ‘right’ path is to start on a downward slide. It is much harder to reverse the ‘wrong’ path than to choose the one the conscience directs. Practice in listening to the directives of conscience help it to grow strong and in time the uplifting path becomes the natural one to choose.

Unfortunately the more one chooses the less moral action the easier it becomes to ignore conscience altogether. The gaols are surely full of people who have managed to suppress the promptings of their conscience.

Now that the mainstream churches have lessened their grip the conscience has lost one of its main allies which used to give weekly injections of morality. Now it is left to personal responsibility and the knowledge that each cause has an effect. Each action must ultimately be examined in the light of conscience.