Dancing: Ever acceptable outside Shockamoo?

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by whoami

I haven't read all the replies, but being raised UPC, it was always taught in our church that dancing was a sin. No one was allowed to go to any sort of dance ever, even if they didn't participate in the dancing. I was once whipped and grounded for three weeks for twirling like a ballerina alone out in the middle of an 80 acre field when I was 10.

Ya, we always got out of square dancing in gym class for "religious reasons". Now I didn't mind getting out of it at the time but even then I saw no point in not being allowed to do it either. It is another of a list of things that I was told "simply IS" and once I was old enough to make my own decisions realized how void of all logic it was.