Topic: Why in some religion gambling is forbidden? - page 3. (Read 1992 times)

Even religions understand that every humans has their level of capabilities, some are smart and some are smarter, some are dull and some are dullard, sorry to say but most humans don't think for themselves, they go astray too easily.

For the sake of mankind, religions have to forbid anything that can make you lose your way, and its obvious that gambling, violence, drinking and other things are forbidden, is this wrong? To me its not.

Still everyone have their choices to make, I believe that I am capable of avoiding any dangers in gambling, I am not easily motivated by the wrong things and its always me against the world.

I don't follow people and I don't like doing what others are doing, I think for myself and I leave what's beyond me, I know how unrealistic it is to make money from gambling, believing that its unrealistic makes me thread with ease, I am good with risking what I can only afford to lose.

I am not really a religious person, so all my knowledge about Christianity is from the school days a long time ago. As far as I know gambling is not forbidden, it's just not liked by the religion. Instead of gambling, people should live a usefull life that would see us donate our money to good causes instead of spending it on things like alcoholm or gambling. Of course this is not something most people follow in their everyday life. Among my close friends nobody is really religious anymore and I think that the longer people stay in school and study, the lower the percentage of religious people in a society will be. It's hard to link faith to all the physical advancements the human race made in the last 100 years. Everybody should decide for themselves what kind of life they want to live and drinking alcohol, smoking or gambling is fine as long as it's not the main focus of your life. We are old enough to make our own desicisions and don't need to live by rules that where made a long time ago.

Don't explain nothing to anyone. It's not others to decides on the activities we should engages, rather its our main job to know If we're ready to take unpon ourselves for the risks upfront. We should create out time to mapped our strategy and know basically what we need. Gambling is prohibited when it comes to most strictly religions, and these activities is consider to be sin and goes against the substandard system. We should always be conversant with the system and knows what we need.

As far as I know that most of the religion don't take gambling easily most of the case it's been seen that gambling is prohibited and not encouraging. And I think that there is no exact answer or no explanation of your question that why in some religion gambling is forbidden. Gambling is forbidden on there religion because it may on thier religion books. If you do respect all religion then they are was will know explanation. And now your totally up to you what you want to do gambling or not. You come to your options with your opinions.

For anyone who truly make practice of a religion and go by it, they may find it that the same religion they practice go against gambling and if we found ourself in such a condition, we may not know what to do as a decision, because some will rather choose to go by the dictate of their religion while some may not forbids gambling and still practice the same, it all depend on our convictions, since gambling is not something that we do in other to hurt someone, it's only a means of having fun, it should not be seen as forbidden on a general perspective when we are not considering the practice of a religion in it.

Yes, every religion has its own prohibitions because every religious prohibition definitely has a good impact on its people, but every human being is different, they know that gambling is prohibited by their religion but they always do it, this could be because they are addicted and not close to their God. . but every person is also different, they are close to their god and they know that gambling is prohibited by their religion but they do it because of addiction where it is very difficult for every addict to stop doing that.

That's right, when someone is strictly prohibited from doing something they think is very important in their life [gambling] they will take steps to keep things running smoothly. even though religion and the state prohibit them from gambling
but that doesn't mean we can't force them not to do that, we can force them not to gamble but not in a harsh way, we can do it by approaching ourselves and being kind to them until they buy our hearts, after that advise him well, he will most likely stop if what we say enters his mind. and there are quite a few cases where gamblers stop because of this, it is not easy to do this but try to make them aware, and it is very difficult for gambling addicts to stop unless they have their own intention.

IMO I don't think gambe has any potential negative effects, like the gamble section says that gamble is a means of entertainment but these days we have a lot of gambler that's gambling because they want to make quick money. Gamble is for entertainment purposes and even if you want to take a little advantage of it you should do that with much carefulness so you don't end up losing everything that you worked for. If you toil with gambe or underestimate it you will end up being affected by addition. So gamble treats you the way you treat it.

In many religions, gambling is forbidden due to concerns about its potential negative impact on individuals and society. It's often seen as promoting greed, exploitation, and a disregard for ethical values. Additionally, gambling can lead to financial hardship, addiction, and social problems, which contradict the principles of moderation, responsibility, and compassion advocated by many religious teachings.

You are right that we usually make a large number of losses. As religion is for humans and it has been created for humans it won't make anything that is bad. So, as gambling is bad religion can't support gambling so gambling is forbidden by maximum religion.

I think that's just one example. Most Muslim countries have laws against gambling including lotteries which means both gambling and lotteries are banned and illegal in those countries. It's a different thing if people do that without the consent of the authorities and are always on the verge of getting caught and if that happens, they have to pay a fine and also get some jail time for going against the law.

So, it's not always a choice if you are living in a country where rules are influenced by the religious beliefs, you may be able to gamble from here and there, but you won't be able to do it openly and legally and if you are caught doing it, you can get in trouble for it.

It is true that mutual respect or tolerance is important in life, even though gambling is permitted in the country, there are definitely people who don't like gambling and that might be our own friends or relatives. This gambling does not force people or gamblers to gamble excessively, this is indeed chaos caused by human instinct itself. They fully believe in gambling which can give them big and satisfying wins. It's just that this belief actually becomes a disaster for them.
It is clear that there are many cases of someone's life being ruined because of gambling, but I myself don't blame gambling, because it is the fault of each individual who goes too far when gambling.

It is possible that before they take a big risk, they are aware of the dangerous risks, but this is still less than their belief in gambling which can give them victory, even though it is not certain. Gambling in my country and my religion is prohibited because it is risking things that are uncertain and can also make someone miserable. But even so, there are still many people who do it because they want to win a win that they can enjoy later.

This does not depend on whether gambling is halal or haram, and whether gambling is legal or illegal. but rather whether he likes gambling or not, because when someone likes gambling enough, even feels addicted to it, then he will never care about all forms of existing rules, be they rules within the scope of religion or the state.

And as a Muslim, in the Islamic religion gambling is strictly prohibited, but this all comes back to each individual, because talking about religion is a matter between a servant and his God. And the level of a person's faith cannot be measured by whether there are gambling places or not in the area or country where he lives. Because if someone is a devout Muslim, then even if he is in a place or area full of gambling places, he will never approach that place and play in it.

What faiths preach and how people live differ greatly. Religions have rules and dos and don'ts. We know real life isn't black and white. People are complex; we make our own decisions, even when they contradict books.

Religions and nations may forbid it; but guess what? People still manage. Even if a higher power forbids gaming, people will chase the excitement of a large victory through underground gambling rings and technology. Risk-taking appeals to a fundamental drive.

This event proves you can't push beliefs on people. Religious attempts fail because humans have free will. It gets messy there. Gambling is becoming more acceptable, hidden in plain sight. Not that it's good or bad, but it shows a shift in social norms

Gambling is outlawed in certain faiths because it is viewed as a sort of addiction capable of causing financial ruin and other bad repercussions. Gambling, for example, is deemed haram (forbidden) in Islam because it is viewed as a sort of riba (usury). In Christianity, gambling is sometimes viewed as a kind of avarice or covetousness, both of which are forbidden by the Ten Commandments. In Hinduism, gambling is frequently viewed as a sort of Maya, or deception, that might have karmic implications. Non-religious persons may opt to avoid gambling for a variety of reasons. Some individuals may see it as a waste of money, others may find it ethically repugnant, and some may just believe that it is worth mentioning that even within a single faith, there may be a wide range of opinions on the morality of gambling. For example, some Christians feel that gambling is always evil, whilst others believe that it is acceptable under some situations.

It is understandable why religions prohibit gambling. There are different types of gambling and it is difficult to bring them all to something in common. For some, chess can be a game of chance. But in general, those games in which there is a high proportion of chance are more often called gambling. If such gambling has an organizer, then as a rule, at a distance, he is the person who takes all the profits. If we are talking about gambling of one player against another, then there are no special patterns at a distance. Luck accompanies one or the other. Anyway in any gambling game, most lose. Of course, it would be strange if any religion approved of such things.

Well, all this is very delicate, in the Muslim world things are very focused on doing them well, and well that is something because they respect each other, their religion, their laws, everything is very strict and they do these types of things. capable of making The difference is that if they do not fully comply with those things, of course, repeating everything in terms of laws and religion, the game should not be seen as something bad, I think that many of them break that rule because I consider that people They are not doing something that bad and that may be the reason why some use VPN, they want to have fun, and I believe that everyone in the world has the right to have fun, of course it is my way of thinking and seeing things, it is like rejecting the technology, it is something very analogous, so things can actually look bad from that point of view.

The topic of gambling from the content of religion has alot to do with how the leaders and the followwer view it to be and as a matter of fact and reality, many of those countries where gambling is ban because of the influence of their religion on the decision of the government it still provable that many of they citizens still gamble with VPN and other tool that make them anonymous and free from the low to cash up with them, and since at individual level, they sees gambling as a sure way of making significant impact both in the mental health and well being and also taken part in lotteries just to hit jackpot to survive every financial barricades.
That proves that gambling is gradually becoming a universally acceptable activities either directly or indirectly, and at some point we need to accept that religion can only give guidance and not direction to to how individuals really behaves.

But that's for those who fail to gamble responsibly or fail to gamble more than they can always afford to lose, because inasmuch as people loses money while gambling, there have been others who won a life changing sum of money from that same gambling. Hence, when it comes to the question Why is gambling forbidden in some religion, I will say that though while some religion prohibit gambling (i.e Islam), not all religion has a strick rule forbidding gambling by it's citizen (i.e Christianity).

Just like I said above, it depends, because that you are not lucky with gambling and wining, it doesn't mean there aren't others who are not benefiting from making gambling and benefiting.

Nowadays is absolutely one person choice.Let me elaborate further on your example and get the most Muslim country on earth where the Muslim holy book is the constitution of the state like Saudi Arabia.There are more strict laws for gambling than in Turkey which if you found doing it you risk really really big and of course persons do not say that they gamble yet the gamblers there get a VPN and join the casino they want to play only online.They cannot do it without a VPN as the government tracks some of the country IP-s and even with VPN-s they are risking it yet they choose to gamble and not care,that is because gamblers are universal they exist everywhere even in countries like this one being one of the most restrictive in the world.

Even if you're a religious person, everything depends on your interpretation of the law.
I'll give you an example.
Some people say a Muslim should not gamble, so Muslim countries like Turkey banned gambling. The problem sis that they still run lotteries. A State lottery is available in Turkey, so is that gambling or not? Is that forbidden or not? Why can't you play poker, but can buy lottery tickets? Maybe because the government makes more money from lottery tickets than it would from you playing poker.
Maybe ultimately it's your own choice?