More on Conscience
For an excellent explanation of how conscience works, read this post from Leila Miller (in which she borrows from J. Budziszewski's thoughts).
We are living in a time dominated by the avenging conscience.
The remedy isn't to outsource conscience but to liberate it the way Our Lord Jesus Christ did, by speaking of repentance. Now there's a word you don't hear much these days...
Leila Miller ends her post thusly:
Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil. That road goes down and down. —G.K. Chesterton
Praise God for the gift of the avenging conscience. For to be pursued by the Five Furies, even to the very edge of the pit of hell itself, is a severe mercy given by a loving God Who will use drastic means to call us back to Himself.