Well I'm an atheist that's why my comment maybe seemed a bit weird! It's just that to me, when I believe something is right, I do it, and when I believe something is wrong, I don't do it. I'm not saying I'm 100% successful, but most of the time I am. And so it's strange to me when I hear Christians 'failing' all the time, and then praying, and thinking they've gained forgiveness, and then go and do the same thing again. It smacks of hypocrisy somehow. I mean, take the Buddhists. Those people are serious about what they claim they believe! They renounce all earthly possessions, sex, they meditate all day, they live simply, etc. Muslims are pretty faithful to their religion too. It just seems to me, when it comes to being true to your religion, Christians are some of the worst, and I'm trying to understand why. I think it might be because their belief isn't very strong, or because they live in a very 'atheist' and scientific culture, and they feel themselves being tagged this way and that. And this whole 'pardoning of sins' deal gives them a free pass to commit sins, since they can always repent afterwards.
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Well, regardless of religion I am sure if you were to ask anyone in any religion all have fell short somewhere, somehow, I base that on a simple fact that as humans we are just naturally always short of 100% almost all the time. I see your point on Christians having the ability to ask for forgiveness and moving on forward, that is a luxury our religion has, because our religion has a Christ who died and his blood was the payment for past, present and future sin. Our bible teaches price for sin is death. (Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.) Regarding repeating sin, its not normal, when you accept Christ a manifestation happens or is suppose to inside you, where if you truly accepted Christ, you feel the sin lets say the one you always repeat, you feel its wrong and you are suppose to turn away from it and not desire it, I believe the difference is in desire, sometimes our flesh does things but we don't like it, sometimes our flesh does things and we like it. I am no professional when it comes to Christianity however that is how I feel about it. Also sin can be forgiven, but certain things on earth you will have to live through for example, if you commit murder and truly ask for forgiveness God will forgive you, because Jesus's blood has no discrimination, sin is sin, however that doesn't mean you won't be spending time in prison.