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Am I a bad person for using Common Lisp for a short time (a few years) and then giving up on it completely?

It can take a few tries before things start to click. It also helps quite a lot to be using a modern variant (Clojure, probably Racket)

I tried getting back into Lisp a few months ago. With "Realm of Racket". I was bored 1/4 of the book.

And Clojure isn't for me. I'm no JVM user.

No this does not make you a bad person.

I took the better part of a year to feel quite comfortable with Lisp. A few years later, I am still learning things.

It does take you in a different direction than all of the most popular languages. Personally, it has been worth the effort.

In 2004 I was comfortable enough to release some open source code in Common Lisp. Around 2008 I stopped using it.

It basically spoiled programming in every other work language for me. Sometimes enlightenment brings pain.