Your Biggest Sin?

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To Catholics (and any non-Catholics interested): What is your biggest sin and/or struggle? Also if you are willing to share, what do you think the root cause of it is (not that there are any excuses for sin)? I think it is good to check ourselves and be honest with ourselves sometimes. My biggest sin is probably sloth. I am lazy spiritually, intellectually and physically and I am also guilty of flattery (letting sinful things slide that shouldn’t slide). A close second is that I am rather judgmental. I think my being judgmental comes from having a strict/abusive stepfather and I think my sloth comes from when I was removed from that strict environment into almost a complete opposite environment of few to no rules or consequences as an adolescent. But again there are no excuses for sin, only explanations.
 
Pride, sloth, gluttony, procrastination, self-centeredness, shall I go on:D. Plenty to work on right there. Fortunately, God is merciful.
 
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To Catholics (and any non-Catholics interested): What is your biggest sin and/or struggle? Also if you are willing to share, what do you think the root cause of it is (not that there are any excuses for sin)? I think it is good to check ourselves and be honest with ourselves sometimes. My biggest sin is probably sloth. I am lazy spiritually, intellectually and physically and I am also guilty of flattery (letting sinful things slide that shouldn’t slide). A close second is that I am rather judgmental. I think my being judgmental comes from having a strict/abusive stepfather and I think my sloth comes from when I was removed from that strict environment into almost a complete opposite environment of few to no rules or consequences as an adolescent. But again there are no excuses for sin, only explanations.
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Like most teens, mine is masturbation. I have been trying to stop many times, and have had varrying degrees of success, from 2 days up to 6 months. However, I keep falling into it. Wish I had never started 😦
 
Anger, when I blow up…it’s an explosion. The next worst is procastination and sloth - there seems to always be something better on television that I “need” to watch.
 
My anger toward God for placing me in a family/environment with a frail personality with no hope of ever living a decent life. To God for giving me a human heart and all the emotional/social needs that it entails and giving me so little to have those needs met. Despair and anger I have to fight them almost daily. And envy. I envy people for whom life is a breeze, or pretty close to it. Sure we all got our struggles but they’re not all of the same magnitude.
 
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My anger toward God for placing me in a family/environment with a frail personality with no hope of ever living a decent life. To God for giving me a human heart and all the emotional/social needs that it entails and giving me so little to have those needs met. Despair and anger I have to fight them almost daily. And envy. I envy people for whom life is a breeze, or pretty close to it. Sure we all got our struggles but they’re not all of the same magnitude.
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Don’t envy people whose lives are easy as a breeze… they tend to be idiots 😛

[BIBLEDRB] Ecclesiastes 7:5 [/BIBLEDRB]
 
I think about this often and although I have a slight issue with a few of the other sins, the one that stands out overwhelmingly would be SLOTH. I am lazy in virtually every aspect of my life. If I could just conquer that I would be doing pretty good.
 
Sloth, by far. It’s not that I shirk my responsibilities in favor of something “better” to do - I am simply incredibly lazy. It’s obvious in my housekeeping (or lack thereof). Most people think I’m exaggerating when I say my home is a disaster area. They realize just how accurate that description is when they actually see it… :blushing:

My parents felt my sister and I should dedicate ourselves to our studies and so never required us to do any chores. The only thing they wanted us to do was keep our shared bedroom in order, but other than their complaining there wasn’t any punishment for not tidying up. So, more often than not, we didn’t. (We weren’t particularly good students, either.) Once I was out on my own, I realized I didn’t know how to do anything - clean a toilet, iron a dress shirt, wash dishes, cook, balance a checkbook, etc. Little by little I taught myself the basics, but because these tasks were not a priority while I was growing up I struggle to make most of them so now that I’m an adult.

This not only true of the housework, it’s true of anything I have to do - I have trouble disciplining myself to take care of the obligations many (most?) people do as a matter of routine. I even use my daily prayer and Bible/catechism study as excuses for neglecting my material responsibilities. “I’ll take care of that later, honey - can’t you see I’m in the middle of a Rosary right now??!” Of course, “later” never comes. 😦

A distant second is anger. I don’t get angry often (and it certainly happens much less than it did when I was younger), but when I do… http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y81/Pascal_S/smileys/blowup.gif I also have a tendency to keep anger long term. I’m still upset about some things that happened to me thirty years ago! :sad_yes: Granted, they were serious things, but they’re done and can’t be undone so I really should just move on rather than hashing and rehashing the events to death in my mind.

Thanks for asking this question - I feel better having gotten all that off my chest 😛
 
Of those listed I would say my greatest obsticle is sloth. I struggle with the other of course, and if you had asked me 6 months ago I would give a different answer, but at this point in my spritual life I would say sloth. I think alot of it has to do with wordly distrations. I am all for spending 4 hours on the computer but sometimes seem so resistant to spending 30 minutes to pray the rosary. I am trying to do as St. Francis de Sales recommended to conduct most of your days spirtual excersizes in the morning (instead of at night before bed like I used to do) and this is helping some.
 
I’d have to say my greatest sin, and the one I struggle most with, is anger. I am very slow to anger with others, but it takes very little for me to blow up at myself. (I often struggle with self-hatred, which seems to me as much a sin as hating others. It’s partly medical but that’s really no excuse.)

I also hold to an old truth in that I don’t “suffer fools gladly”. I have a tendency to judge willful stupidity and narrow-mindedness in a way that becomes unChristian at times. For instance, I know a girl who has yet to willfully read a book over 4th grade reading level, yet is an English major at our college. :doh2: Her intelligence is far below normal. However, stupidity is not grounds for hatred, which I struggle greatly with.

(Maybe that’s pride. I don’t really know. 🤷 )
 
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