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This post is a wonderful analysis of all the many things wrong with the modern American church. At some point, discussing each of the reasons on his Top Ten list would be a valuable exercise, but I'm more interested in the ending to the post which is an answer to what happens to Christians who die with unconfessed sin, which then veers to look at the problematic philosophy behind confession as a whole. As an evangelical with Catholic tendencies, what he writes at the very end is worth noting:

Then remember this: You could never say enough. You could never be sorry enough. You could never confess sincerely enough or completely enough. At the end of your confession, God would say "All your righteousness is filthy rags in comparison to my law's demands." Not the labor of my hands -- or my best attempt at confession -- can fulfill thy law’s demands. Christ’s perfect confession for us is "It is finished." From there, "there is no condemnation," deathbed or otherwise.

The response to the realization that one could never be sorry enough is perhaps what separates Catholics from Protestants in my view. Protestants cling to the concept of grace and no longer feel any remorse, whereas Catholics use that realization of the enormity of their debt to fervently pursue absolution in every manner possible (bodily prayer, daily communion, other various rites), theologically right or not. Me? I can cling to grace and still be cognizant of the ever present desire needlessly to apologize.