Is moral blindness the only cause of sin?

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As I think of my own sins, I realize that I either wasn’t thinking that I was doing anything wrong or that my sin was less-than-5 (let’s say) on a scale of 0 to 100 ( 100 is 100% sure that something is a sin).

e.g. someone may commit abortion because they don’t see it as anything morally evil (although it seems obvious to me that it is).

Or, perhaps through cognitive dissonance, they think it’s minor or trivial when in fact it is much more serious than that.

Robbing banks or sins of sexual predation seem to fall in this category, that people aren’t thinking or thinking correctly about the gravity of their action.
 
The anatomy of sin. If you don’t know that what you do are a sin you are not sinning. If you know it is wrong,you commit a sin. But what do cause us to sin? Moral blindness? Yes. Are we guilty? If we know it is a sin yes. Thees days moral are worth less then what I earn each month and that is close to nothing. All seem to be OK and we can do what we want to and get away with it. Or so do we think. What was wrong year 40 is so now,year 2011. But is moral blindness the only cause? If we think about what is sin and wrong I would say yes,it is.
 
No - moral blindness is not the only cause of sin…There is also outright rejection of a previously accepted morality.

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All Sins are derivative of the greatest sin of all, namely Pride.

The greatest angel there ever was in heaven (Lucifer) now Satan got thrown out of heaven because of it.
 
Lucifer knew exactly what he was doing was against the will of God. He did it anyway.

Same goes for us when we commit a mortal sin.
 
For the sake of discussion, not argument, that’s what I’m talking about. Yes, we can deliberately do something, but we might be blinded by rage or other passion, so that we’re not looking at the sin – the sinfulness of the act. Is that possible?

Which is to say, what we are doing may seem so “right” even if it is wrong.

Like assassination. it is wrong to murder, but, to somebody, it may seem to be the morally correct thing to do.
 
“If you were blind you would not be guilty of sin, but since you claim “we see”, your guilt remains.”
 
I have often times heard people say that they did something but speak of it as though it was outside of their control. The old caught cheating line “It just happened” for example. I have had sex many times in my life, and I can tell you that each and every time was the result of many well thought out steps.

The way mortal sin was explained to me that made the most sense is that mortal sin is turning away from God and to myself. I think of it like I am in Church in adoration of our Lord, and I take a huge mirror and place it between myself and Jesus. Let us pretend that I am stealing money from work, what am I really saying with my actions? That I do not trust God enough to provide for me what I need. Let us take masturbation. What is the root cause of my action? That what I want is more important then what God wants.

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