Can gambling turn an atheist to theist and superstitious?

[jademaxsuy]

That might be true. Perhaps, GOD wants to show you that playing gambling doesn't make you rich and you should know that. It is better to do something else to get rich and don't risk much money in gambling. The luck is not related to any religion as many others said and gambling is depending on luck, and that is why only a few people who can be rich from gambling. So before we ruin our lives, we need to think seriously about the risk of playing gambling, and we must prevent ourselves from becoming addicting to gambling.

It is because there is no fast and easy money. This should always instill to one's mind and to not to believe in good offers like investment scheme to which it will double your money in just a short period of time or gambling platforms that offers jackpot and will let one win in the lottery process. As a piece of advise it is better to play games in an online bitcoin casino where one can win and lose rather than having a betting platform that will let you see that one win but in reality they are just bots.

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[MidKnight]

I believe that athiest will not ever entertain gambling because the time that you made your first step inside is that you are already believing that you are lucky or that you have something lucky. It can also go beyond like you will call any deity, god or saint that they say miraculous or can give you luck. I remember when I'm in a heat of a game and I just continue to mumble the name of the Lord.

[imstillthebest]

I'm pretty sure anything can turn atheist into believers including gambling, when something unbelievable happens to you just at the right moment I think it can happen.

You mean winning ?  Winning is not really an unbelievable thing  . it can happen to anyone whether they believe on their self that they can win or not  .

It reminds me of the family Guy creator who was hungover and 15 minutes late due to a wrong they wouldn't let him on his plane and he argued and argued, that plane flew into the world trade center.

That scenario is a different story because that was his own fault .  that is not an unexpected event   .

Re: Can gambling turn an atheist to theist and superstitious?

I think this will depend on the gambler  . in my case i do believe on luck and other beliefs  while others are not , they are only playing normally   .

[Dontme]

We all know gambling is random. We like to call it as "luck" as it sounds cute but it's like "choice of odds" in mathematics.

I'm an atheist and when I started to play, I had a fun experience despite of what I won or lose because I bet small amounts. Then I got addicted because of some big wins so I started to gamble much.

Even if I wanted to think that maybe my winning and losing isn't getting impacted by anything external, I believed otherwise. I believed my winning is the result of the color of the shirt and wearing, music I'm listening to, time of the day etc. Then when I lost big, I prayed to God to help me win/recover. I saw gambling as life and winning is heaven and losing is punishment from God.

Then slowly I stopped and the addiction got away a bit.

What's your opinion, do you believe in God/power that you think may help you win? I think gambling has the potential to turn an atheist into theist because of fear/risk it has.

Well, in my own opinion as I believe in God and his ability he can do it if he wants you to win but think about it gambling makes people worst it can turn them into something they never expected. God will never allowed a person abuse his own life because of gambling if He sees that you will become a worsted person in gambling then he will never allowed you to win but you will ended up lose to learn something.

[Fredomago]

I believe that athiest will not ever entertain gambling because the time that you made your first step inside is that you are already believing that you are lucky or that you have something lucky. It can also go beyond like you will call any deity, god or saint that they say miraculous or can give you luck. I remember when I'm in a heat of a game and I just continue to mumble the name of the Lord.

That's just part of yourself which trying to hold to something even there's no real changes that will happen aside from luck that will permit you
to win over this gambling activities that you are inside, better to enjoy instead of trying to believe in something that never exist.

[aioc]

If you asked a religious person he'll definitely say no, God forbid his children to engage in gambling and all religious groups agreed that gambling has no part in your belief in God, it's just your alibi for you to continue to gamble, take another reason don't include God on gambling.

[bitgolden]

If you asked a religious person he'll definitely say no, God forbid his children to engage in gambling and all religious groups agreed that gambling has no part in your belief in God, it's just your alibi for you to continue to gamble, take another reason don't include God on gambling.

Aside religion, most moralist do not even belief in gambling and people would always give reasons why it is against their religion or belief but whatever it is those of us who do this for business do not attach it to belief or religion. As long as you don’t attach your other businesses to any form of belief, I do not see any reason why it should be.

In my opinion, I would say that  gambling does not change a person, an can never be against anyone’s religion, when gambling we do not even remember our religious belief, all we care all that moment is to win and that is all that matters.

[Ranly123]

We all know gambling is random. We like to call it as "luck" as it sounds cute but it's like "choice of odds" in mathematics.

I'm an atheist and when I started to play, I had a fun experience despite of what I won or lose because I bet small amounts. Then I got addicted because of some big wins so I started to gamble much.

Even if I wanted to think that maybe my winning and losing isn't getting impacted by anything external, I believed otherwise. I believed my winning is the result of the color of the shirt and wearing, music I'm listening to, time of the day etc. Then when I lost big, I prayed to God to help me win/recover. I saw gambling as life and winning is heaven and losing is punishment from God.

Then slowly I stopped and the addiction got away a bit.

What's your opinion, do you believe in God/power that you think may help you win? I think gambling has the potential to turn an atheist into theist because of fear/risk it has.

No, I don't think about good to help me out to win an any gambling. I just think of some luck to favor me and just avoid being hooked up or addicted to it in order to enjoy gambling.

[MFahad]

In most religions, God wouldn't help you anything with gambling so there's no relation to it.

Prayers will be useless. God is against gambling. This makes me think that maybe God never help me win the game and make me realize that gambling is not healthy in our lives. We play with money involved and that we only rely on pure "luck" not the help of anyone especially not with the help of God. We can seek help from him in different ways like seeking how we can actually recuperate from addiction, from deppresions and from frustrations.

That might be true. Perhaps, GOD wants to show you that playing gambling doesn't make you rich and you should know that. It is better to do something else to get rich and don't risk much money in gambling. The luck is not related to any religion as many others said and gambling is depending on luck, and that is why only a few people who can be rich from gambling. So before we ruin our lives, we need to think seriously about the risk of playing gambling, and we must prevent ourselves from becoming addicting to gambling.

In all religious God not allow to play gambling, even i read about gambling, it is sin. Hence we should not involve God in gambling.
And the second point is we could rich from gambling or not. I never see a single luckiest gambler in my life who has been rich from gambling. So in both points of view, we should clear our mind, that if we wanna play gambling, then simple we play it and don't involve other things in it.

[rosezionjohn]

This is probably the funniest thing I have read today. No offense but I have not heard of an atheist turning to theist before because of gambling. I only of of non-religious turning religious when they lose.

[udidrone]

In most religions, God wouldn't help you anything with gambling so there's no relation to it.

Prayers will be useless. God is against gambling. This makes me think that maybe God never help me win the game and make me realize that gambling is not healthy in our lives. We play with money involved and that we only rely on pure "luck" not the help of anyone especially not with the help of God. We can seek help from him in different ways like seeking how we can actually recuperate from addiction, from deppresions and from frustrations.

That might be true. Perhaps, GOD wants to show you that playing gambling doesn't make you rich and you should know that. It is better to do something else to get rich and don't risk much money in gambling. The luck is not related to any religion as many others said and gambling is depending on luck, and that is why only a few people who can be rich from gambling. So before we ruin our lives, we need to think seriously about the risk of playing gambling, and we must prevent ourselves from becoming addicting to gambling.

In all religious God not allow to play gambling, even i read about gambling, it is sin. Hence we should not involve God in gambling.
And the second point is we could rich from gambling or not. I never see a single luckiest gambler in my life who has been rich from gambling. So in both points of view, we should clear our mind, that if we wanna play gambling, then simple we play it and don't involve other things in it.

Actually fun fact, people start to pray so they can win in gambling. Actually it is their rights, but other people will see it as funny thing. It is better to do what you said and even lose, don't much think about it.

[Rufsilf]

Gambling is a game that is most of the time base on luck and being lucky doesn’t means it’s because God want us to be lucky, same goes to people who aren’t lucky in gambling - is it fair to say that it’s God who made those people unlucky? I don’t think so. Gambling and religion are two different things and I don’t see any relation to them so wether the atheist will gamble they will not think of God because in the first place atheist don’t believe in God. If an atheist person will gamble and win they will not say thanks to god because normally they would think they are lucky so to answer your question I don’t think gambling has any impact to atheist players in becoming theist.

[Viscore]

If you asked a religious person he'll definitely say no, God forbid his children to engage in gambling and all religious groups agreed that gambling has no part in your belief in God, it's just your alibi for you to continue to gamble, take another reason don't include God on gambling.

Yes. God would really forbid all those acts that includes gambling. It will never be a reason that if you happened to win in gambling, God is behind you. Remember that God considers gambling as a sin so He would never do some actions that will tolerate his children to become gamblers.

[tsaroz]

Can't say about atheism and theism as its an individual thing. But people do be superstitious when they get involved in gambling.
I have met people who have their wining clothes and shoes. Some have wining directions to face while gambling and someone has winning partners to be with.

[Nellayar]

Lol. Why do we need to believe in superstitious belief because of gambling only?

It is religion as magic. Many people tend to be religious entity because they only have temporary needs. A kind of need where they cannot do without the benevolence.

If you are only using God or other forms of Supernaturals, stop gambling. It won't help you.

[sweetbet]

It's sad for a person to only turn to God because he wants something from him. It's like a friend who only calls you when he wants something from you.

[romero121]

It's sad for a person to only turn to God because he wants something from him. It's like a friend who only calls you when he wants something from you.

Well explained in a short statement. Whether it is gambling or something else we need to prepare for the excitement as well as for the worse case. Believing God is different, we can pray for a winning, but praying for win with demands is truly a bad thing.

There are real incidents where people used to promise God on doing good things to the one in need on getting things fulfilled which were mostly related to health. The help done to the people in need is done from what he earns after his recovery from his earnings.

The same can't be applied to gambling, and one requesting to give to the poor or the people in need if he wins will lead to failure, and with gambling luck and strategies were the deciding factors, and nothing happens in turning an atheist to theist.

[Tipstar]

Gambling is in many senses against the religious teachings as here people try to gain more what is not earned by themselves and in meantime lose what they have.
As people lose much, they start to pray and lose more. So they'll have less faith on god but still believes they have chances to win and turns into superstitions.

[MFahad]

Gambling is in many senses against the religious teachings as here people try to gain more what is not earned by themselves and in meantime lose what they have.
As people lose much, they start to pray and lose more. So they'll have less faith on god but still believes they have chances to win and turns into superstitions.

It is true, when we do start of losing in gambling then we start to pray even we forget it that in many religious gambling is not allow to play it, but we don't care about it and still we do pray, sometime i laugh on it, but it is also funny just like our gambling give us fun. 

[RivAngE]

Isn't an atheist someone who believes in whatever he sees fit?

Since he doesn't belive in a God, he'll act in any way he believes will benefit him, including showing "fake belief" to a God.
I I wouldn't consider such behavior an act of "becoming theist".