I think that the sin isn't in eating the horrible-tasting cookie, nor what the silly scrap of paper may or may not say. Its not wether some witchcraft went into their production, or if some hindu blessed your meal before it came to your table.
The area of sin for the Christian is that we entertain that fleeting desire to see if this time the thing written on the scrap of paper is actually true.
It demonstrates a desire to know if something other than God Almighty can predict the futur, and that falls right back into devination.
Like Xmas trees and 'Christian' rock music, ecumenism or hellywood's TV/movies, one tries to argue that since the Christian doesn't take it that way, then it isn't that way, but that never changes what it is, only changes us through compromise.
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