Topic: Is this true or some superstitious believe about gambling? - page 18. (Read 2346 times)

It is common in my country for people to blame demons for their mistakes, carelessness, foolishness, and mediocrity. When criminals are caught they always blame Satan for pushing them to engage in the crime. If you were oppurtuned to know this man's gambling history you will be surprised that he was a careless gambler who never took any precautions during his gambling days. After he had lost so much, he would generally blame demons.

His claims are false because it has no scientific or even religious backing. This mindset is one of the superstitious beliefs that people blame after they have failed to do their homework. Anybody familiar with gambling will know that the house has more advantages and if you are not comfortable with the area arrangement it will be better to stop gambling than to blame demons.

Well, different people see gambling in different ways and light, and this also depend on their experiences from them their self gambling,  or experience gainered from other people's gambling experiences.
Personally, I understand the Bible (the Holy book) to condemn gambling in one of the chapters and verse in the book of proverbs, I can't remember the particular chapter and verse at the moment, and some men of God do preach against gambling as it appears to be against God's order of wealth generation, but all this boils down to how we take and go about ourselves gambling, how we consider it and how we put money into it.

For a normal gambler who simply gambles as a way to just have fun and pass time, I do not see anything wrong in doing so, as long as one doesn't allow him or herself to become obsessed with it, possibly leading to gambling addiction.
But for those are seriously gambling solely for the purpose of making money, I wouldnt say that gambling is demonic in this regard, but it's important we know that this is often the ticket that lead many to becoming gambling addicts, and this like we all know have destroyed a lot of lives.
So, it's important we search ourselves and find out the real purpose of we gambling, for those gambling for the right purpose, I would say it's good, but for those gambling for the wrong purpose or reasons, it could be dangerous, though not demonic as said by the man.

Although it may be true that there are some people who have a paradigm or view that there is a connection between gambling and the devil or other beliefs that are not visible to the naked eye. However, in my opinion, this is just an assumption, not a fact, because until now there is no strong enough evidence to support this opinion.

and it is important to consider the real fact that gambling is basically an activity that is based on one's own decisions, factors of luck, understanding, knowledge and skills. The reason why in gambling the house always wins is because of the mathematical rules that underlie it, not because of the intervention of Satan.

In overcoming this problem, I think the person you met on the bus had experienced quite a bitter experience in gambling, so he talked to others about the gambling he had experienced and thought that the bitter experience he had experienced was due to the intervention of Satan. But this all comes back to each individual, because everyone has the freedom to have their own views about gambling.

Establishing a gambling platform is a business, so it is normal for these casinos to have an edge over the player.  @OP you could have asked that man which verse in the scripture directly states(word by word) that gambling is Satanic since he is talking about spiritual things and relates it to gambling.

Aside from that when he talked about demons manipulating people, you can ask for proof or screenshots of those demons helping the platform in manipulating people to be addicted to gambling.  CCTV are often used today so if that is true then there should be copy caught by the CCTV where demons are manipulating people into gambling addiction.   If he can't provide any proof then it is just his own imagination and shouldn't be taken seriously, IMO.

 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?