We usually don't spend too much time thinking about our own sinfulness. On occasion, of course, our feelings of guilt overwhelm us. We can't stop thinking about our sinfulness. If we are in that situation, we may need to talk that out with someone. Apart from times like that, we don't think much about our own sinfulness. We have ways of getting around that.

We don't think about our sins because we are too appalled at the sins of others. The news media throws in our faces the outrageous sins of other people. We overdose on the spectacular murders, war crimes, cruelty, child abuse, and depravity of others. We know more than we want to know about parents who torture their children, sometimes in horrific ways, like cooking them in a microwave. We see such things and become too complacent abou…