I boarded a bus going home from the bank yesterday, then I remembered some football match had few minutes to kick-off then I brought out my phone from my pocket to place some bet, immediately I opened the bet app a man sitting next to me, tapped me and said that gambling is Satanic and I should desist from it, at first it sounded so funny and made me laugh but with a serious face he further said that it's manipulated by demons and that's why the house would always have the higher edge. He said he used to be a gambler but stopped when he discovered that and that there are demons helping the casino and sport betting owners to manipulate people into becoming addicted and getting more money from them, they give to selective people knowing fully well more people would lose and they'll gain back what they lost when more bettors lose the old man made it sound real but I don't believe that, i think he's lost too much in gambling before he stopped and is looking for anyway no matter what to discourage people from being like him or he's just being too superstitious. What's your opinion about this please?
Some people need to build up excuses and delusions to try to justify their own mistakes. As you say, it's possible that this person lost a lot of money over time and instead of accepting that it was the fault of his continuous poor choices to keep on adding funds, he probably fell into some religious "awakening" that put the blame on to demons. There are no demons, these sportbooks and casinos are upfront from the very beginning on the games where they have an edge, some people just think they can beat the system and are ultimately driven by their own greed. If you keep gambling purely casual and fun, not expecting to walk away with any money left and certainly not hoping to get madly rich from it, then you fully understand it.