The Church gave us the Bible too.

Or was it faxed down from heaven with a table of contents?

I can't remember. 

I am working on a small writing project..it's on the loss of a sense of sin and on the loss of sense of charity.

One of the effects of sin is a slow distancing of us from the transcendent.   We find it difficult or annoying to see things except from a mere human/temporal perspective.    We reject the idea of grace and the supernatural plane of reality.

Your posts and John Hobbit's have been helping me collect up some good material examples.