I think it's because dancing is slightly pagan and the movements often times mimic those of being...in an act of passion to put it delicately. Dancing also causes lust I guess.
Is everything Pagan? I don't know why everytime someone mentions anything as being slightly controversial the Pagans come up. I'm not pickin' on ya I just don't know where the Pagan influence fact books are published. What if it turns out that paper is pagan or the Pagans invented ice-cream?
I had to check the dictionaries because maybe Pagan just means someone having a good time.
Main Entry:
pa·gan
Pronunciation: \ˈpā-gən\
Function:
noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin
paganus, from Latin, civilian, country dweller, from
pagus country district; akin to Latin
pangere to fix — more at
pact
Date: 14th century
1 : heathen 1;
especially : a follower of a polytheistic religion (as in ancient Rome)
2 : one who has little or no religion and who delights in sensual pleasures and material goods
: an irreligious or hedonistic person
Ahhhhh, there's the culprit.
Main Entry:
he·do·nism
Pronunciation: \ˈhē-də-ˌni-zəm\
Function:
noun
Etymology: Greek
hēdonē pleasure; akin to Greek
hēdys sweet — more at
sweet
Date: 1856
1 : the doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the sole or chief good in life
2 : a way of life based on or suggesting the principles of hedonism
If we rip that out of context then all the pleasures of this world are pagan. Ugh. We're doomed. I'm eating ice-cream as I type.
Seriously. Can we just get over the whole pagan boogie man? Anyone up for it?
God's Wrath Against Mankind
18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. 21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
If we look at these verses from Romans we can see that it makes total sense that all these other religions and cultures that are completely foreign to Christianity (which at one time all cultures, save one, were pretty much foreign to Christianity/Judaism) somehow still have similarities with Christianity. Just because people sing and dance doesn't mean anything but that they sing and dance...