Prayer and gambling.

[TheNineClub]

For a second there I thought this was a topic about putting bets on who's prayers will get answered XD I'd actually go for that. As for praying for results, I doub't God watches the third Iranian women's basketball division.

[ChiBitCTy]

LOL it is funny that there are people in here who literally believe that prayer or believing in god or gods has anything to do with the outcome of anything period.  I am not saying there isn't a god out there somewhere, because I truly have no idea, but the absolute most likely truth when it comes to fate is that it's much more likely than not that none of the Gods we know are likely to be real.  Even if the gods we know are real, why the hell would they help you win money..because you prayed to them lol.  That is not how it works.  This is all pretty silly.

[Cling18]

For a second there I thought this was a topic about putting bets on who's prayers will get answered XD I'd actually go for that. As for praying for results, I doub't God watches the third Iranian women's basketball division.

Sounds sarcastic but true. No matter how and whom we pray to, if it isn't our luck to win in gambling, then we couldn't win it because if prayer is powerful even in gambling, then religious and prayerful gamblers should've been rich now. Gambling has nothing to do with our religious beliefs.

[madnessteat]

For a second there I thought this was a topic about putting bets on who's prayers will get answered XD I'd actually go for that. As for praying for results, I doub't God watches the third Iranian women's basketball division.

Sounds sarcastic but true. No matter how and whom we pray to, if it isn't our luck to win in gambling, then we couldn't win it because if prayer is powerful even in gambling, then religious and prayerful gamblers should've been rich now. Gambling has nothing to do with our religious beliefs.

I know many Muslims who pray before important work. Prayer, whether it is asking for something or praising God, is a kind of ritual to lift one's spirit, motivation, concentration and attention. If someone believes that prayer helps them, why not? Each of us has our own religious views and preferences.

[Fortify]

Often times in my country, i have visited a sports betting shop to place my bet, and each time before I am about to do so, i always look out to the other service booths where bettings are received for other other individuals placing their bets as well.

Each time, i notice that out of the five service booths in this sports betting shop, it is common to see two or sometimes three individuals out of the five occupying the service booths always bow their head and mutter some words solemnly, a prayer i suppose.

Big questions - Do spiritual beings get involved or influence gambling results in the favour of those who pray to them?

Have you ever prayed before placing a bet (gambling)?
Did it work?

If you believe it does work, examine this scenerio.
If we both worship and serve same god, and we place our bets on the same games, in a manner that our bets are opposites, and we both say a solemn prayer to this our god before casting our bets, Who will this god favour?

How is anyone meant to answer the question "did it work?" - bets have simple probabilities attached to them, sometimes long shots will pay off but the bookmaker is using statistical analysis to try to predict the outcome, it's not some kind of voodoo magic. If you are praying when placing a bet then you are likely doing something wrong and should probably hold on to your money instead. You might get lucky once but it will be offset by the dozens of other times when the odds were heavily stacked against you. Most people are placing small bets that are not life changing amounts and over time the house will have the advantage to bleed you dry.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

LOL it is funny that there are people in here who literally believe that prayer or believing in god or gods has anything to do with the outcome of anything period.  I am not saying there isn't a god out there somewhere, because I truly have no idea, but the absolute most likely truth when it comes to fate is that it's much more likely than not that none of the Gods we know are likely to be real.  Even if the gods we know are real, why the hell would they help you win money..because you prayed to them lol.  That is not how it works.  This is all pretty silly.

Yeah I think this is still reasonable. even a sinner and a crime may also pray before doing the action. that only belief makes a person feel better and confident to do something. when it comes to facts, there is absolutely no connection between prayer and gambling. like someone using lucky charm and so on.

[tabas]

Yeah I think this is still reasonable. even a sinner and a crime may also pray before doing the action. that only belief makes a person feel better and confident to do something. when it comes to facts, there is absolutely no connection between prayer and gambling. like someone using lucky charm and so on.

In religions perspective, they'll call this nuts and crazy. But it's true that there are those people that before taking actions that are prohibited, they're praying for its success.
They don't think if it's bad for them but they also have their own belief that's why they pray.

[Oilacris]

Yeah I think this is still reasonable. even a sinner and a crime may also pray before doing the action. that only belief makes a person feel better and confident to do something. when it comes to facts, there is absolutely no connection between prayer and gambling. like someone using lucky charm and so on.

In religions perspective, they'll call this nuts and crazy. But it's true that there are those people that before taking actions that are prohibited, they're praying for its success.
They don't think if it's bad for them but they also have their own belief that's why they pray.

I dont see any bad effects of praying on doing gambling but rather only the thing that they do believe that they would be lucky just because they do pray which is really a very wrong kind of perception.

In general sense, we do talk about being lucky and this is something that cant really be influenced by anything even you do pray and no matter how you do then you do still end up on having random
results towards gambling activity.

Just let them be into those people do really believe that prayer is significant.As long they dont put themselves which results to addiction then it should be fine.

[iTradeChips]

Whatever you call it, prayer, meditation, and others, what the person is doing is that he is trying to motivate himself in doing the act of betting and gambling and by motivating one self he can get the courage to roll the dice or start playing the game. It does not really mean that the spirits will support his prayer and make him win right. It is really giving oneself a sign that everything will be alright and that it is ok for him to start playing. That is how I perceive it.

[paxmao]

Interestingly, whether you believe on a superior force, being, god or gods or you believe that we are just dust in the universe, the answer is pretty much the same. Praying to ask a favour from the gods does not really make sense. They are supposed to be omnipotent and omniscient in most religions, and if you believe in some short of universe Karma, it is probably far too busy to notice whatever little egotistic interest you have in mind when you pray from a favour. It is senseless to ask something from a god.

[Ebede]

If you feel prayer works for you, why not stop Gambling and get your hands doing better things ?
This might be someone's else's believe, maybe be it works,maybe it's just as a result of luck, or careful analysis of the games you picked.

[TinaK]

Whatever you call it, prayer, meditation, and others, what the person is doing is that he is trying to motivate himself in doing the act of betting and gambling and by motivating one self he can get the courage to roll the dice or start playing the game. It does not really mean that the spirits will support his prayer and make him win right. It is really giving oneself a sign that everything will be alright and that it is ok for him to start playing. That is how I perceive it.

Every one of us has a different belief in life, if you think prayer will bring you some luck then that is fine, that is your life and no one cares about what thing to do. For me, prayers are just courage to everyone who will gamble and there is nothing wrong if you are doing this while in gambling because that is your belief as I said. On other insight, they are not good because gambling and prayer are totally different as they said gamblers are also a sinner but that is what they believe and different when it comes to ours.

[7788bitcoin]

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There is a confusion here. The confusion of Grace and luck. Most religion don’t even condone gambling. They discredit gambling and think of it as the work of the Devil. Because if more than half the religions forbids a certain thing, I think there’s something wrong about that thing. Some people might pray to their god or anything that they worship before playing a bet. If the the outcome comes out positive, they think their god answered their prayer and they keep doing that. Personally, that’s LUCK. It just naturally happened. But some will think you’re graced to win a certain bet or something. Gambling is a game of luck. Because most religion Prohibit on gambling so I think it is not a good thing.

What a bunch of bull crap, so you think gambling is bad because of your religion? I am not religious and i do not follow a like a herd and follow everything due to some bullshit crap written centuries ago. There is no such think as the devil or god to begin. Only people can behave like a devil or a god depending on their character. There are multiple forms of gambling and there are luck based and then there are skill based gambling. The choice is yours which one to select and there is multiple forms of gambling you can choose from.

[tabas]

Yeah I think this is still reasonable. even a sinner and a crime may also pray before doing the action. that only belief makes a person feel better and confident to do something. when it comes to facts, there is absolutely no connection between prayer and gambling. like someone using lucky charm and so on.

In religions perspective, they'll call this nuts and crazy. But it's true that there are those people that before taking actions that are prohibited, they're praying for its success.
They don't think if it's bad for them but they also have their own belief that's why they pray.

I dont see any bad effects of praying on doing gambling but rather only the thing that they do believe that they would be lucky just because they do pray which is really a very wrong kind of perception.

In general sense, we do talk about being lucky and this is something that cant really be influenced by anything even you do pray and no matter how you do then you do still end up on having random
results towards gambling activity.

Just let them be into those people do really believe that prayer is significant.As long they dont put themselves which results to addiction then it should be fine.

There's actually no bad effect when a gambler prays. It's just that in the perspective of religious people that sees him, it's odd. We all knew how religions work.
As long as the gambler doesn't have any others to hurt with what they do, pray and whatever deed they are doing, yeah, let them be.

[Quidat]

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There is a confusion here. The confusion of Grace and luck. Most religion don’t even condone gambling. They discredit gambling and think of it as the work of the Devil. Because if more than half the religions forbids a certain thing, I think there’s something wrong about that thing. Some people might pray to their god or anything that they worship before playing a bet. If the the outcome comes out positive, they think their god answered their prayer and they keep doing that. Personally, that’s LUCK. It just naturally happened. But some will think you’re graced to win a certain bet or something. Gambling is a game of luck. Because most religion Prohibit on gambling so I think it is not a good thing.

What a bunch of bull crap, so you think gambling is bad because of your religion? I am not religious and i do not follow a like a herd and follow everything due to some bullshit crap written centuries ago. There is no such think as the devil or god to begin. Only people can behave like a devil or a god depending on their character. There are multiple forms of gambling and there are luck based and then there are skill based gambling. The choice is yours which one to select and there is multiple forms of gambling you can choose from.

There are religion which does have bad impression or really doesnt like involvement on gambling.Well its their religion and lets just respect on how they do treat or those bad views on it.
People does have different impressions on things some are way too religious and some doesnt really care and they do come into that extent on where they do apply it on gambling
which they do believe that they could really be lucky if they do pray and once that particular day make out some big wins then thats the time they do really fixed up their mind
that it is working.

[michellee]

If you feel prayer works for you, why not stop Gambling and get your hands doing better things ?
This might be someone's else's believe, maybe be it works,maybe it's just as a result of luck, or careful analysis of the games you picked.

Stopping gambling will be the best thing you can do and do something else that can help you to leave gambling, especially if you only lose money many times. At one moment, someone can feel bored, have a losing experience many times and want to stop gambling for a while. But those who pray to God before playing gambling will feel different from other people who do not know how it feels. Maybe that thing is not an effect for us, but we can not stop them from praying to God.

[molsewid]

I dont see any bad effects of praying on doing gambling but rather only the thing that they do believe that they would be lucky just because they do pray which is really a very wrong kind of perception.

In general sense, we do talk about being lucky and this is something that cant really be influenced by anything even you do pray and no matter how you do then you do still end up on having random
results towards gambling activity.

Just let them be into those people do really believe that prayer is significant.As long they dont put themselves which results to addiction then it should be fine.

Personally speaking I don't see any wrong about it since we have our own freedom what to do before gambling and it's our own personal choice. I mean when in terms of religious perspective this is unethical because gambling is one of the prohibited activities in terms of religious practice but we can't blame a person's action when he choose to pray before betting maybe because it's his last money to bet and wanted to get win before he leaves a betting site or what else. At the end of the day we don't know the reason behind each person do that thing and maybe it is not too much to show them respect and let them do what they wanted to do.

[boyptc]

I pray a lot and I'm also praying when placing a bet or rolling a dice, it doesn't matter if I win or not the most important is I am putting faith in my belief and the almighty, you can pray in any situation any place and any condition, it's beneficial in both body and mind and I don't see anything wrong why you should pray when gambling.

Are you a buddhist?

I've known people on that religion that prays to have good luck as they gamble and they always do that before they gamble. I've seen one how they do it personally so it's not really questionable if you do that.

[btc78]

Have you ever prayed before placing a bet (gambling)?
Did it work?

I pray a lot and I'm also praying when placing a bet or rolling a dice, it doesn't matter if I win or not the most important is I am putting faith in my belief and the almighty, you can pray in any situation any place and any condition, it's beneficial in both body and mind and I don't see anything wrong why you should pray when gambling.

there is no one argue why you pray but of course there are others that don't believe in God or Saints meaning they may be disappointed when people are having like what you are doing.

faith at some point are indeed with others  but in some this does not exist because they believe that gambling is not part of beliefs instead it is for luck and strategy combined .

If you feel prayer works for you, why not stop Gambling and get your hands doing better things ?
This might be someone's else's believe, maybe be it works,maybe it's just as a result of luck, or careful analysis of the games you picked.

just respect what others do believe and focus on your own, there are no barriers on what we must do so respect is the most thing to do.

[pawanjain]

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There is a confusion here. The confusion of Grace and luck. Most religion don’t even condone gambling. They discredit gambling and think of it as the work of the Devil. Because if more than half the religions forbids a certain thing, I think there’s something wrong about that thing. Some people might pray to their god or anything that they worship before playing a bet. If the the outcome comes out positive, they think their god answered their prayer and they keep doing that. Personally, that’s LUCK. It just naturally happened. But some will think you’re graced to win a certain bet or something. Gambling is a game of luck. Because most religion Prohibit on gambling so I think it is not a good thing.

What a bunch of bull crap, so you think gambling is bad because of your religion? I am not religious and i do not follow a like a herd and follow everything due to some bullshit crap written centuries ago. There is no such think as the devil or god to begin. Only people can behave like a devil or a god depending on their character. There are multiple forms of gambling and there are luck based and then there are skill based gambling. The choice is yours which one to select and there is multiple forms of gambling you can choose from.

Personally, I think the same. Even I don't believe things when people say it's written somewhere in a book written by someone centuries ago.
We can't simply believe something written which can be easily manipulated. Following something is an individual's choice  and although we don't accept something like a herd we should not disrespect other people's beliefs.
But yeah, gambling is definitely something based on luck. If you are lucky you win else you lose.
God won't be sitting somewhere just to wait for you to pray so that God can grant him the wish. Again, praying is just a habit that people have developed over the years and doesn't mean God is hearing you.