JenT,Mountain Man, God's children strive not to sin because of our response of gratitude for what Christ did. Do we still sin? Yes, we do. And we ask for forgiveness and He grants it. So in that you can sin all you want and be forgiven, the thing is the true Christian doesn't WANT to sin, but when we do and confess and repent, yes, it IS forgiven.
The CONSEQUENCES of those sins in this life are still looming. For instance, God tells us not to fornicate, but if I sleep around and ask His forgiveness, I am forgiven, but if I caught AIDS in the process, well, we go home all the sooner a saint.
I'm not going to crap on your thread, but I will tell you what I think.
In general, humans are nice. The way I see it, most of us want to avoid what you call sin. You may attribute that to god or religion, I attribute it to the inherent goodness of mankind. I don't think god or Jesus has anything to do with it, other than what people try and attribute to them. We are all capable of both evil and love, some of us don't need a deity to steer us in the positive direction.