Maybe not those we expect. We may be surprised at the source of our comfort. This could be the hardest one for us. For those who grew up in a very shaming environment, it is very hard to learn to admit our real wrongs. We confuse shame with realistic guilt.
Every human being makes mistakes and hurts others.
We are very touchy about concepts such as sin and evil, and cannot imagine that such words could ever apply to us. Unitarian Universalist minister Forrester Church in his book, The Devil and Dr. Church , says that the devil's greatest ruse is to convince us he does not exist. M. Scott Peck, in The People of the Lie, contends that most evil is very mundane, and usually boils down to laziness. We do not take the trouble to transform ourselves into better, more loving, more honest people. We settle for the routine, the status quo .