I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I spent my entire Irish Catholic youth in a constant state of guilt over imaginary sins. I learned that nothing is a sin as long as you don't take pleasure from it.
Sin is the reason we are racist, prejudiced, and lie to cover for our own.
Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.
Long before genetics became a flourishing field, Christians have spoken about sin as an inherited condition.
It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.
There is no sin except stupidity.
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.
No sin, especially no great sin, is just a harm done to the individual who commits it. I believe myself that the future of the human race is bound up with that idea. The soul that is conscious of a grievous sin is conscious of a great harm done to the community - to someone else. That common hurt should now be forgiven.
I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.