Great, another favorite sin to fight temptation against
As Mark Shea explains in Crisis Magazine- Consequentialism is the favorite sin of Americans. I must say, including myself- I'm willing to tolerate say, the minor evil of estate taxes, in order to provide every American a chance to own property at age 18 regardless of capability.
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Sin? Actually believing that things we can do are wrong? Oh, that's so dark ages.
But it isn't, is it? Sin exists. People do some pretty awful things under the guise of good intentions. Consequentialism is truly the order of the day, not just for the nice sexual libertine hippie folks, but ALSO for Nazis, profit seeking capitalists, and intellectual Popes who like red shoes.
We're all trying to do good, but sin does exist, and causes unintended consequences all the time.
The sin is forgiven before you even do it. The question is, whether or not you, and the other human beings that you hurt with your sin, can accept and act on that forgiveness.
Most priests will tell you about a minor miracle they receive when hearing confessions- blessed amnesia. They don't care about the sins you do, their job is only to tell you that you are forgiven and give you some idea (modern penance) how to do better next time.
My last penance, for the sin of gluttony, was to eat more veggies.
If you do wrong to someone, you need to make amends to that person and/or get their forgiveness. This whole idea of being forgiven before you do it is the kind of nonsense the pedophile priests rely on to get away with their discussing actions.