Re: Gambling and Religion. Beliefs or Choices?

There are some religions that have strict views on gambling, some considering it morally wrong. However, people still gamble for various reasons.

Have you ever faced any conflicts between your religious beliefs versus gambling? How it happen and how did you handle it?
How do different religions view gambling? What could be the reasons behind it?

For me it's just that a moral standard that I need not to violate. I view gambling not as gambling but as risk taking opportunity. It only becomes gambling to me in a negative point of view when I become fully degenerate, not follow my rules, and just foolishly act upon my impulses and emotion. It's a signal for me that I am doing the wrong thing.

But when I follow my rules, that I remain in control of my actions and decisions. I even feel like God is guiding me to take the risk. (Don't get me wrong). It think it's bad when you constantly put yourself in that position, not take accountability, and blame your beliefs and other people from your own actions.

You are absolutely right, if I gamble responsibly, I think I'm doing the right thing but when I do it excess, then it's very wrong, even the bible says 'We should do things in moderate '. So whatever thing I do without me thinking it's wrong, that is I'm doing it with my heart and mind free, also in moderate, I believe I'm doing it right.

So anyone seeing it as a sin or religion beliefs, it's left for them. Although I have really experience any kind of such argument about gambling in any religion, though I have heard about it but I haven't heard the conclude part of it but for me, all I know is it's my choice to gamble and I gamble for entertainment, not to use it to mislead anyone, beside everybody and their own beliefs and choices too.

Gambling for fun At one time gambling addiction is created by playing this fun trick so everyone should refrain from gambling for fun. There are also many gamblers who first gamble for fun and then get so addicted to gambling that they cannot come out of gambling on their terms. When a person gambles once, somehow if he wins money from gambling once, his self-confidence doubles, he becomes so confident in himself that he bets twice as much money in the hope of winning the second time. If he is bad, he loses twice the amount of money and returns home empty-handed. There are families who become so much in debt just because of this gambling that they have no money left to repay until they end up having to pay the debt with their lives. So everyone should refrain from such gambling.

This isn't completely true and doesn't apply to everyone who gambles for fun. It's true that at some point, some gamblers can lose control and start gambling out of control after a huge win or lose, they can allow their emotions set in and start making decisions for them, but this completely has nothing to do with gambling for fun, as this is the best approach I know to keep a gambler away from the risks and effects of addiction.

There's a very huge tendency that greed can set in, but if you stick to your technique and keep your emotions in check, then there's absolutely no way this theory of yours can apply to one who gambles for fun.

Just to be clear, if we shouldn't gamble for fun, what should we gamble for exactly?