[From "Serious People Don’t Pursue “Fun”"]

For most of my adult life, I lived as a child in an adult body. I never grew out of the desire to play in a selfish way[…]Only when I came back to Christ have I begun to put away the childish notion of having fun

The word “fun” is not found in the Bible. At no point did God command us to idolize fun, pursue it[…]The epitome of fun is the modern amusement park[…]stimulating rides and games for many hours until one gets nauseous from overstimulation[…]we do not need to physically drive to an amusement park to duplicate its effect upon our souls[…]cheap thrills that distract us from our vital mission before God[…]
Fun is a relatively new idea that entered the world when material ease and comfort became idolized. If your material needs were easily being met, and you did not take your faith seriously, you would experience black voids of “boredom,” where the antidote was not serving others or communing with God but engaging in fun[…]The apotheosis of fun may be the existence of a band by the same name who a decade ago sang about all the impious, drunken fun[…]
This song (i.e. work of social engineering) was extremely popular when it came out[…]
Mentally, we have all struggled to shake loose a childish desire to enjoy ourselves without responsibility or seriousness. How often does it happen to you that, after a tough day at work or a particularly long Orthodox service, you want to clock out and “enjoy” yourself?[…]
We’ve fallen so badly with our obsession to have fun and turn this life into a fit and a laugh that the early Church Fathers didn’t see the need to address that which didn’t then exist. To put it starkly, I have behaved worse than a pagan even though I was born after the revelation of Christ, and I am currently in the Orthodox Church and still must battle with my need to kick back