Sin And Sickness

It seems curious to me that, on the one hand, we have a modern tendency to put (what was called) sin down to sickness. We describe alcoholism or depression as sickness, for instance, where once we did not. Yet at the same time, we are loath to call, for example, the liar or the thief "sick". Unless they should go to extremes, that is -- say, like Idi Amin. Then we say: "He is sick." And so we continue to make that old distinction between sin on the one hand (lies, say), and sickness on the other (depression, say) -- only we have now shifted the boundaries. Interestingly, the Bible talks of all sin as sickness: "Christ bore our sicknesses." OBSERVATION: And the man who steals a Porsche is a (sane) thief, while the man who steals twenty-three teddy-bears in a row is a kleptomaniac.