Headline: Gulf Coast casinos hit revenue jackpot
I have to wonder about the human devastation left in the wake of this "flourishing" news. And this quote from the article:"I want (the region) to be the Las Vegas of the south," says Rick Carter, whose Copa Casino barge was destroyed by the storm. "The better the casinos, the better the economy."How about the moral economy? Cha-ching!
Labels: Gambling
posted by Matt Friedeman at
7:07 PM
10 Comments:
Get over it Matt. Mississippi has had casinos for a while...and Mississippi has yet to turn into a festering sink-hole of sin.
I can assure you that the "human devastation left in the wake" of high gaming revenues pails in comparison to the devastation left in the wake of that "act of God" known was Katrina.
Anonymous - but isn't it of interest that the casinos WANT to turn out state into a festering sink-hole of Las Vegas and Atlantic City?
And "Gambler" - I think there would be a fair amount of data that would back up my assertion. Katrina was here and gone...gambling effects will passed on from one generation to another long after you and I are taking our dirt naps.
God will not bless a state that promotes sin.
I am truely amazed by how many Christians are blind to this sin. Not only is gambling a sin but it has zero net economy output. Money only changes hands nothing is create. The next generation will see gambling just as way of life. We need to get back to the bible.
PrayerWarrior
I posted this on the previous blog entry:
"Matt,
When you vote this year, will you hold to your 'wasted vote philosophy (fallacy)' (kinda self-perpetuating, ain't it) or will you vote according to your own stated 'beliefs'?
See http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/182006mf.asp
(your article at agape press on voting).
Seems highly inconsistent - on the one hand, let's just make sure the devil's brother gets elected rather than the devil and on the other, we need to be concerned with the 'issues'. Your pragmatism is dangerous - what candidates become more popular when society gets more socialistic and evil?"
Maybe Matt will vote for a candidate one day who supports casinos given his 'wasted vote' philosophy.
Just a quick question: For those who think gambling is *inherently* immoral, can you back this up from scripture?
Regards
Yes, I can back it with scriptures. But the real question is why can't you? That not an attack on you personally only to say that when faced with a moral question only 4 out of 100 Christians will give a biblical answer. We as Christian are not spending near enough time study God's Word so we can discern right from wrong.
Gambling promotes "Lust of the Eyes", "Lust of the Flesh" and "The Pride of Life". Gambling is disobedience to God's command not to covet. Also, Christian dependence should be in God not with games of chance. Ideally, Government would keep Gambling illegal, but at least we as Christians should never gamble.
PrayerWarriors
So according to your logic, the Government should permit/promote the stoning of women who are not virgins, the execution of adulterers, and the banishing of men who have have sex with women during their periods?
It's in "God's Word".....
prayerwarrior,
Why misrepresent? Should you jump to the conclusion that I don't hold gambling to be *inherently* sinful from a mere question to determine what *your* justification of its sinfulness was? Maybe I do or maybe I don't, but from the mere question I fail to see how it follows.
I didn't want to debate this particular issue but your reasoning is unsound and terrible. Now even if I disagree with *your* justification, it would still not entail that I hold that gambling is not inherently evil.
We as Christians need to spend much more time studying logic and reading our opponents in a better light.
Regards.
note: the first paragraph should also read - "that I *can't* give a justification of it (or back it up)" as well. The assumptions abound.
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