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Satan has inspired many to think that continuing in sin is righteousness.
Show me one mainstream or mainline preacher who preaches such a thing or show me one website that isn't a Jim Jones cult where such a thing is taught.
If you can't then maybe you should repent of your false accusation.
Many do not teach that. This is a strawman argument you are making. Now show me that your strawman is more than just fluff.

Before answering this, let's get our definitions straight. What is sin?

I believe this:

1Jo 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

The biblical defintion of sin is transgression of the law. This can mean a willful violation of the law or "missing the mark"...failure to live fully up to the law.

The "law" is referred to here, under the new covenant.

What is "the law"?

The law is love:

Gal 5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, [even] in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Jam 2:8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
Jam 2:9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.

Now love is kind of a vague term. It could mean anything. Sex. Liking someone. Whatever. But thank God once again He defines what love is in scripture:

Rom 13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
Rom 13:9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if [there be] any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself

Here Paul specifically lists the last five of the ten commandments and sums them up as "loving thy neighbor".

So violation of any of those, in physical action or in spirit or thought, means you are sinning. You are not loving your neighbor as God intended.

But wait there is another component to love, love of God:

Luk 10:25 And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
Luk 10:26 He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?
Luk 10:27 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

Now we know that Paul has already defined love of neighbor. We know that it's keeping the commandments. So what's love of God? Keeping the first 5 commandments. No other Gods, keep God's sabbath, etc.

Mat 22:40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

All the law is based on love. Violation of the law is violation of love. They are the same. If we don't love God and our neighbor fully, then we are in violation. If we purposely and habitually violate one of the ten commandments, we are purposely and deliberately thwarting God.

Do you agree with this?

I agree with 99.9% of your post.

The only part I disagree with is, this thing called a 'new covenant'.

There was no 'new' covenant, but a ReNEWal of the old covenant.

Jeremiah 31
31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

Israel had to return to God and allow His Commandments to be written on their hearts and minds. Israel needed a Covenant Renewal of their Sinai Covenant. They needed to repent and return to God through obedience to His Laws thus being a witness and an example to the nations. Only by being such a righteous priestly nation, and example, could they hope to be the catalyst that merits the arrival of the Kingdom of Heaven and its King. Here it was promised that the spiritual infirmity of Israel would be helped by the intervention of God.

God allowed them to RENEW their 'lease'. But, this time, it was not written on stone, but written WITHIN THEIR HEARTS.

IF..... IF.... there was a new covenant, then why is it that one of the promises of the old covenant (Isreal would regain their homeland) was fulfilled in 1948, when Israel became a nation???

It's the same covenant, just put forth more forcefully, imo.