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Originally Posted by I follow Jesus  Buying tickets to support the fine arts and throwing your money into a slot machine is a nice example actually of good vs bad stewardship.The fine arts like classical music are often Christian at heart. To support that help that legacy live on. The slot machine? Is it anway Christian based? To "support" it only helps buy more slot machines and keep up a grinding cycle of misery. I hve seen what gambling has done to towns like Vicksburg....it aint pretty. |
Well, I never said anything about slot machines, nor am I advocating slot machine playing as good entertainment... just saying that the issue isn't *quite* as cut and dried as many might want to make it. Culturally speaking, gambling is a scourge and a real abuse of the poor and uneducated (and some of the wealthy and [otherwise] well-educated).
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