FUN, AN ENDANGERED CONCEPT -- The New Risk-Averse Calvinism Of Left-Lib Society

The whole of the Reformation was about strictness, discipline, attending to ones duties to God and to your fellow man. If you were enjoying yourself, you were obviously neglecting one or the other.

You appear to believe that it is impossible to attend to one's duties and enjoy yourself at the same time. I would dispute that position. Let me ask this: is not possible to remain faithful to one's spouse and still enjoy one's self? Is it possible to enjoy a fine meal or fine wine without resorting to gluttony or druneness? Is it possible to enjoy the company of one's neighbor without taking advantage of him?

You pose Christian duty and pleasure as being mutually inconsistent. That is an erroneous position and certainly not a Calvinistic position. As a Calvinist, I would say that one's seeking of pleasure is always subservient to one'e duty to love God and one's neighbor. Nonetheless, within that framework we are able to have a pretty enoyable time.

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