On a popular television series the main character cynically takes a jab at the celebration of the Thanksgiving holiday by saying, “Who wants to celebrate the coming to this continent of a group of people who were kicked out of England because they were against dancing and any other form of human pleasure?” The underlying message is that if you believe in the Pilgrims’ Jesus, you can kiss fun and good times good bye. It is the popular caricature of the pious Christian but does New Testament Christianity actually teach that the body is evil and any pleasure it enjoys must be sinful?