If this is really what is in your heart as belief then you really do not understand The Grace of God in Christ. When Salvation comes to one who believes in Him, their want to is changed.
Your red herring stinks to someone who has Christ in them, The Hope of Glory. Aside from your abuse of the fallacy of the undistributed middle, man cannot forgive sin. ONLY God can do that. When God changes the want to, it makes certain behavior abhorrent to the Child of God. I'm surprised that you don't know that. Or perhaps you do and have allowed your mean streak to get the better of your heart toward a fellow Christian.
Confessing to a Priest does not get absolution form sin. Though their is great good in doing so in the belief that this Priest is servant for God's Grace, it is God Who forgives, not the recitation of Hail Mary's or other canticles.
Guilt-ridden former Catholics are the absolute worse Catholic bashers. A rational thinking person would never abandon the precious blood and body of our Lord and Savior. Total ignorance of the faith is the only reason a Catholic would leave the faith. Devout Catholics don’t leave the faith. I have also known many females that were raised Catholic and attended Mass regularly, then had the misfortune of marrying a Catholic-hating good ole boy baptist/pentacostal and were browbeaten to death by the bum until they started going to his Bible-thumping church and “converted” to his faith. The South is full of these types. You’ll go to my church or you’ll not go to any church. Now get me another beer and speak when you’re spoken to!
I never said it wasn’t God who forgives. Please don’t put works in my mouth. It’s so dishonest.