Oh, Tiger may not “feel” like he’s sinning. Obviously he’s pretty hard-hearted to that sort of thing!
But whether he “feels” good or “feels” bad is irrelevant, of course. It is God’s opinion of the matter that counts.
I’ll try one more time to convey my meaning, which I fear is not coming across properly.
You and I (and the Pope, for that matter) can recognize the utterance as a christian sin. But from a theological (as opposed to dogmatic) point of view, “sin” is defined differently by different faiths. Your absolute assertion that it is a sin is dogmatic - you adhere to your definition of sin, no matter the context.
The assertion, no matter that I agree with it, is insufficient to address the theological debate I was proposing. Because this debate must be predicated on balancing one religion’s tenets against another’s, the dogmatic assertion of primacy of christianity is unsupportable - on an academic level.
The debate has nothing to do with feelings - it has to do with the definition of “sin”.