In the sermon on the Psalms the pastor made a distinction between those who do things wrong, those who do wrong things for so long that they have seared conscience and no longer recognise the wrong, and those who are so far gone that they make fun of the righteous. If you think that first group doesn't sound so bad in comparison - which I guess is true - notice that they are called the wicked, which doesn't sound like an especially neutral term. The sinners and the mockers are the two further categories. This tracks with what I have observed, though I'm not sure how we measure it.
The classification of sinners reminded me of those people Dante encountered just outside the gates of Hell, doomed to rush about madly in the dark after blank banners. Virgil explains them thus:
ReplyDeleteAnd he to me: "These are the nearly soulless
whose lives concluded neither blame nor praise.
They are mixed here with that despicable corps
of angels who were neither for God nor Satan,
but only for themselves. The High Creator
scourged them from Heaven for its perfect beauty,
and Hell will not receive them since the wicked
might feel some glory over them."
[…]
I had not thought death had undone so many
as passed before me in that mournful train.
—The Divine Comedy, Inferno, Canto III, Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi trans.
Dante isn't giving demographics on the damned, but he seems to think there are an awful lot of this sort. Lewis has Screwtape touch on them briefly in "Screwtape Proposes a Toast":
… they would very possibly have qualified for Limbo, as creatures suitable neither for Heaven nor for Hell; things that, having failed to make the grade, are allowed to sink into a more or less contented subhumanity forever.
...which sounds better than running frantically in the dark after a blank banner, but only some.