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You make a good point. I've met some Christians whose whole attitude was this. "If you're having fun, you're committing a sin." WTF?I wish I could remember his exact words when President carter came out with hit 55 MPH speed limit. It was, IIRC something to the effect of drivers having fun with their automobiles and the fun coming to a stop. I didn't much care for him anyway and that only made my dislike even greater.
I was dating a girl in high school and we could go out but movies or school dances verboten! They were sinful. She didn't quite go along with mommy and daddy's beliefs. Guess I was damned lucky she didn't get knocked up. Good Christian people. The skipped out on owed rent and grocery bills telling the guy they left the money with me. But they did go to church every Sunday and Wednesday night.

I'm not down on Christian people by any means. I'm a Christian. But I've foregone the pleasure of church, thank you very much. My late wife got me to finally go back. There was one woman who had a reputation of stealing husbands from wives, yet they let her stay. We left when she hit on me right in front of my wife and I told her to F off in no uncertain words. We picked another and between the pastor with his Brooks Brothers sit and multiple Rolex watches, his constant badgering the congregation for money and sermons that left us feeling guilty, we said bye bye church. He was always one who gave you the feeling that if you were enjoying yourself you were sinning.
Halloween? Can't speak for anyone else but when I was a kid it was our day. knock on doors and get free candy, cookies and other goodies. All good clean fun. Never gave any thought to anything but just big a bag of candy we could get before 9PM, out curfew set by our neighborhood. The occult? What was that? We had no idea. FWIW, our time frame was from about 1944 to maybe 1954. At the end I had to go along as escort tp my younger sister.
Paul B.