Friday 14 September we went to S. Michael Church and we met Reverend Hugh Lee, to discuss about conscience from the Church’s point of view. He was very wise, kind and willing to answer the questions. We chose to interview him because we think conscience is an important aspect of Christianity, and we wanted to compare the Christian understanding and the general public’s view of conscience.
These were our questions:
1. What does conscience mean for you?
2. How important is conscience in Christianity?
3. In your opinion, when do children start to have a conscience?
4. How do people who believe in God relate to conscience?
5. In your opinion, how do people who don’t believe in God relate to conscience?
6. Are there any stories of how the conscience is important in the bible?
7. Why don’t we always listen to our conscience? What can help us listen to our conscience?
8. How much does the conscience influence reason?
9. If a Christian told you he has troubles with his conscience, how would you advise him?
10. Where does the conscience come from?
11. In your opinion, what are the differences in meaning of conscience in all the religions?
These are his answers:
1. Conscience is feeling yourself, you wish you haven't done it, you know you've done something wrong. It's a very strong feeling that gets me worried.
2. It's pretty important, God has made us and so our conscience. It' s an emotion, it comes from God and was given to us to help our lives.
3. In some children it develops much more quickly, it' s influenced by the way which their parents look after them, the things they tell them, how they tell them "You mustn't do this".
4. We should listen to our conscience and respond to it. We need to be a little careful; our conscience isn't God itself, so we need to think, not just respond instinctively to our conscience, but actually think what's going on here, what' s happened and why did I do that.
5. There are a lot of people who behave very good lives, but for one reason or another they don't believe in God, and they would listen to their conscience like Christians do and respond in the same way.Many others say "I'm just wanna do what I like" and after a bit their conscience is suppressed.
6. There are both in old and new testament.
7. Praying and spending time talking to God can help us to understand what God says to us. So I think it's the best way to develop our conscience.
8. Our conscience is an emotion opposed to rational thought. This means that we are emotional beings and rational beings, and some people say you shouldn't do anything from the emotional point of view.
9. I would ask him what are is troubles and let him talk about it, but I would advice him that his conscience is important anda God maybe says something through that.
10. I'm sure it's God given like the rest of our emotions, but it is also something we develop or suppress. It develops from the parents criticise it a lot then we may have a conscience that in effect give us too much troubles. If they let us do anything we'll lose our conscience.
11. I don't know a lot about other religions but I think that it's similar. I think all the religions are about how to live good in different ways and part of that is responding to our spirit. Different religions would describe it in different ways. There are some religions who think that the aim of life is to become free of this world and free of our emotions so maybe they think they want to be free of their conscience.
These were our questions:
1. What does conscience mean for you?
2. How important is conscience in Christianity?
3. In your opinion, when do children start to have a conscience?
4. How do people who believe in God relate to conscience?
5. In your opinion, how do people who don’t believe in God relate to conscience?
6. Are there any stories of how the conscience is important in the bible?
7. Why don’t we always listen to our conscience? What can help us listen to our conscience?
8. How much does the conscience influence reason?
9. If a Christian told you he has troubles with his conscience, how would you advise him?
10. Where does the conscience come from?
11. In your opinion, what are the differences in meaning of conscience in all the religions?
These are his answers:
1. Conscience is feeling yourself, you wish you haven't done it, you know you've done something wrong. It's a very strong feeling that gets me worried.
2. It's pretty important, God has made us and so our conscience. It' s an emotion, it comes from God and was given to us to help our lives.
3. In some children it develops much more quickly, it' s influenced by the way which their parents look after them, the things they tell them, how they tell them "You mustn't do this".
4. We should listen to our conscience and respond to it. We need to be a little careful; our conscience isn't God itself, so we need to think, not just respond instinctively to our conscience, but actually think what's going on here, what' s happened and why did I do that.
5. There are a lot of people who behave very good lives, but for one reason or another they don't believe in God, and they would listen to their conscience like Christians do and respond in the same way.Many others say "I'm just wanna do what I like" and after a bit their conscience is suppressed.
6. There are both in old and new testament.
7. Praying and spending time talking to God can help us to understand what God says to us. So I think it's the best way to develop our conscience.
8. Our conscience is an emotion opposed to rational thought. This means that we are emotional beings and rational beings, and some people say you shouldn't do anything from the emotional point of view.
9. I would ask him what are is troubles and let him talk about it, but I would advice him that his conscience is important anda God maybe says something through that.
10. I'm sure it's God given like the rest of our emotions, but it is also something we develop or suppress. It develops from the parents criticise it a lot then we may have a conscience that in effect give us too much troubles. If they let us do anything we'll lose our conscience.
11. I don't know a lot about other religions but I think that it's similar. I think all the religions are about how to live good in different ways and part of that is responding to our spirit. Different religions would describe it in different ways. There are some religions who think that the aim of life is to become free of this world and free of our emotions so maybe they think they want to be free of their conscience.
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