Life is fired at us point blank. To our irregular newsletter sent to UUs on America Online. Josie includes some thoughtful quotes on the subject.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
The biggest sin is sitting on your ass. Adultery, fornication, murder, theft, swearing, witchcraft, sedition, heresies, or any the like. Bunyan, Instructions for the Ignorant, 1675. Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly, but passe.