Gambling and Religion. Beliefs or Choices?

[Casdinyard]

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?

If your religious beliefs, which are strictly in-line with the way you get on with things in life, comes in clash with your hobbies and the way you want to live your life, I think you should choose which one would give you a better sleep at night. In countries like the Saudi Arabia where Islam is a massive deal for them, it might be more strategic to just stick to your beliefs and actually just quit your dreams of being able to gamble, lest you stir the wrath of your fellow islamic brothers and you actually get ousted of family dinners and all that stuff.

On the other hand, for more open countries like the US where Christianity is more prevalent, you guys know just how much Jesus hates gambling, but it's not like that would stop you from ever indulging in the finest things in life yeah? So I reckon a lot of you people will still go towards gambling, and just worry about the promised consequences after.

Whatever your belief system is or its disposition towards gambling however it's best to keep in mind that you need to have the discipline and the balls to not go overboard when you're gambling. Realize that gambling isn't something to be trifled with just cause you think you can get away with the consequences.

[Kelward]

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?

I know that gambling is forbidden in Islam, I doubt that it's specifically written anywhere in the bible that christians should not gamble, although I've heard some overzealous preaches condemning gambling as a sin. I don't really know about the stance of other religions regarding gambling, so I think that it's mainly Islam that is very vocal about forbidden gambling.

I think that the way majority of people view gambling is based on their personal decisions, not religious believes, therefore it's their choices whether it's morally suitable for them or not. You will see people who don't belong to any religion condemn gambling, due to various reasons like gamblers are financially irresponsible, while others sees it as a normal game that people engage in, where you'll meet responsible and addicted gamblers. So gambling is more of a choice than believes.

[ethereumhunter]

Gambling can be taken as entertainment only when we are not afraid of losing any money by gambling. If we gamble we lose money then this gambling will not be our entertainment then this gambling will become a cause of loss for us at some point. So gambling like this is not right for anyone whether it is for entertainment or fun. Gambling for fun becomes an addiction once a person becomes fully addicted then if they gamble once and win money then they gamble twice the second time they gamble then luck will be good they can go home with the money and if luck  If it is bad, they lose all the money in the bet and return home destitute. A gambler cannot keep his family completely well because a gambler cannot provide happiness to his family comfortably when he is constantly losing money by gambling so everyone should refrain from such.

When people considers that gambling is just an entertainments and not uses it to makes money, they will not trying to breaks their limitations. They knows that they don't have to uses much money to playing gambling instead just use some money that they can affords to lose. Gambling is for fun and they will always avoids the addiction so they will not have to playing gambling too often or uses too much money because that can causes them to gets lose. But they knows that their religion will says that gambling is a bad thing and people must stay away. They will not trying to deny it but they will say that they are playing gambling with limitation and there's nothing to worries about because they can take care of themselves. They knows about the risks of playing gambling and what the impacts for their family if they breaks their limitation in gambling so that makes them be careful when playing gambling. But we can chooses what we belief and if our hearts say that gambling is bad for us, we don't have to playing gambling.