How common is gambling among conservative evangelicals?
How common is gambling among conservative evangelicals? With the lottery and the rise of gambling on sports, it seems more and more Americans are getting involved in this vice. With the increase of casinos and recreational trips to Las Vegas, I suspect many Christians participate in gambling regularly. But what about conservative evangelicals in general?
I have found out about a few closet gamblers when people share memories at funerals! What are your thoughts? What have you read? Experienced?
Does anyone think of it as something other than a vice? Where do you draw the line? Is playing poker for chips or popcorn kernels a bad thing (I don’t think it is). Is buying a raffle ticket for a charity a bad thing? Your thoughts.
I think I saw some data on this a while back. I’ll have to see if I can find it. Probably it was a Lifeway or Barna study.
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Well, not what I was thinking of, but this is interesting:
https://news.osu.edu/having-a-religious-affiliation-doesnt-prevent-betting-on-sports
Results showed that people who infrequently attend religious services are more likely to gamble on sports than people who attend services at least weekly or who never worship publicly.
Catholics – and especially Catholic men – stood out in the data as a group most likely to engage in sports gambling.
Views expressed are always my own and not my employer's, my church's, my family's, my neighbors', or my pets'. The house plants have authorized me to speak for them, however, and they always agree with me.
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