I'm not picking on you here - I appreciate this article - but these are my takes on the points you are making. Religious people have the experience you describe, but I, who was not raised religious, do not. My conscience comes from other sources - a sense of identification with others, the empathetic vibing with others's suffering, my desire to see myself as a good person. I do not feel that my obedience is commanded. Rather the regret I feel when I see and feel the suffering I have caused another causes me to think twice about doing hurtful things again. This seems to me in many ways a preferable source of moral action, since religions have taught people to feel intense moral guilt for such crazy things as pressing an elevator button on the Sabbath (real example) and wearing garments of mixed fabrics. They can also sanction abominable cruelties (stoning adulterers), causing people to override their natural human empathy on the basis that "God says its OK". To me that empathy is the natural wellspring of moral action, not scripture or an introjected superego figure.