Seems it's a lot different here where I live. When you look at who's actually doing the gambling (and probably losing money) in those Indian casinos, it's NOT the Indians! At least not where I live. We have a lot of Indian casinos and it's very rare indeed to see a person from the tribe actually gambling. On the contrary, those casinos here (in the Northwest... I don't know how they are handled and run down in your area) are providing relatively well paying jobs and other income for the tribe and it's members which they didn't have before, lifting those who wish to properly take advantage of that out of poverty. Now if an Indian uses that profit for no good and therefore still lives in poverty because he wasted all his profit, that's his personal responsibility and not the fault of the casinos, or their customers, or even gambling in general
I don't know where Rollo lives, but I used to live close enough to Vegas to know a lot of people who gambled there, and now I live where I am surrounded by Indian casinos, so I know a lot of people who gamble here too. None of them have ever told me they win all the time! Rollo, you must know some of the luckiest people in the world!!! (Or you're being sarcastic... I think perhaps sarcastic.) But even though I don't know anyone who wins all the time, I also can't recall anyone I know who has ruined their lives with gambling. Everyone I know simply does it in moderation and for fun. I've never met any of those elusive creatures that actually think they are going to make some kind of a living by being a gambler. I think that's mostly fantasy. Sure, it costs the people I've met some money, just like going to a movie, a car race, sports event, or whatever else they enjoy for entertainment. I know far more people who's lives have been ruined by drugs, alcohol, adultery, and sometimes just from listening too much to busybody neighbors, but none from gambling. I know they exist and some of you may know one or a few, but they seem few enough and far enough between that I've not known any personally out of all the people I know who gamble.
I think if we were to say gambling is a sin based of a few people's lives being financially ruined by it, we need to put that same label of "sin" on just about anything else people do for entertainment these days. I'm not willing to stretch God's word so far!
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That makes a lot of sense! Although I never really new anyone with a gambling addiction so never ran into anyone who claimed they always won. Maybe too they just knew me well enough to know I'd walk away laughing if they tried to tell me that!
2 dang, looking all those typos in my post! I don't like this phone.
