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%SANCTIFICATION OF CONSCIENCE 780719
Conscience tends to be the voice of our childhood
authorities speaking to us in our later lives within
contexts quite different than those of our childhood
authorities. Too often conscience is not with-knowledge of
the contextual limitations of the lessons of our
childhood. Often conscience has more to do with our
childhood recordings of our fears of
rejection/excommunication---than with knowledge of
contextual propriety of alternative courses of action.
The recordings of our childhood emotions may have more to
do with the messages of our conscience---than with reason
in its broadest and most holistic sense. Conscience does
not always speak wisdom, for it was constructed when we
were not wise---by people who were not confronted with
our modern situations.
The sanctification of conscience does not do anything
to help it transcend its limitations; rather the
sanctification of conscience compounds the problems and
dilemmas occasioned by thoughtless obedience to
conscience. The sanctification of conscience empowers
manipulators of conscience to become hidden dictators---
who can rule without procedures to guarantee openness,
responsiveness, accountability, and the possibility of
recall. Thoughtless obedience to conscience does not
provide for ways to update the childhood recordings which
were interpreted emotionally with childhood perceptions.
Thus it is not helpful to engage in simplistic injunctions
to "obey your conscience". Humane guidance is far more
subtle than that---when it it wise.
We need insights which will help us evaluate our
conscience; ascertain the value of our conscience. The
evaluation needs to be made in an unbiased way in the
broadest possible contexts---within the light of a host of
varied perceptions representative of the varied poles of
the numerous dichotomies which characterize human life. To
exclude people at any pole of any dichotomy as irrelevant
or untrustworthy---is to bias the consideration and call
into question the conclusions. Exclusivity does not
promote holistic perceptions. Exclusivity promotes
arrogant self-confidence, not wisdom. Genuine conscience
will be developed with the knowledge of many varied
perceptions, not in the protective environment of an
exclusive bias.
(c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in
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