He wasn't seeking to have his sins and memories wiped away - his past actually WAS forgiven, which pissed him off. He didn't want that. He just wanted his hallucinations to stop. They didn't.
Ever.
He wasn't trying to atone, becaus he didn't believe he could, and when Athena forced atonement on him it was a perversion of what he had assumed was their agreement. Absolution doesn't mean shit to him. He just didn't want to have visions of murdering his family over and over and over and over.
And I think that Athena protecting a false order with her life is why Kratos's sorrow at killing her is short-lived. He wants to kill Zeus - only Zeus - for betraying him, and Zeus did betray him out of paranoia and fear and Kratos's vengeance on him is justified. Kratos would not harm another life, another god, so long as he had his chance at Olympus. Remember? THat is what he said to Athena: "I do not want to destroy Olympus. Only Zeus."
Is he letting his revenge-lust drive him further to do more horrible things? Well yes, obviously. But Zeus is continuing the betrayal of the gods that Athena and Ares started.
Hell, Kratos would have accepted his death anyway if Gaia hadn't shown him the extent of Zeus's betrayal.
More.... giving up his weapons, throwing away the blades and chains and ashes? He already did that. It was a plot point in Chains of Olympus. He actually got into the Elysian Fields so that he could be with his daughter again.
He had to take them back up again - bar himself from Elysia forever (he will never see his daughter again) to prevent Atlas from destroying all creation.
His salvation was taken from him once before - which, I imagine, is why he opted to just kill himself. He was denied that, given a duty he never wanted, and then murdered for no particular reason - remember, it had nothing tto do with his own duty. Zeus did not kill Ares for what Kratos did, he killed Kratos because Kratos killed Ares and Zeus feared that the same would happen to him. Since Zeus helped Kratos to kill Ares, it might be understood why he is so righteously pissed.
It's not black and white, no - Kratos is a monster - but I think you see the gods of Olympus in a much softer light than I do.
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