What do you think about this?

[alastantiger]

In life we all have choices regardless of your culture or religion. I dont see gambling as a sin. It only becomes a sin when you don't gamble responsibly.
Yes, religious leaders gamble most often. Gambling does not stop them from preaching the gospel. Some gamble secretly while some gamble openly.

I dont think is a good idea for religious leaders to gamble because it does not show a good example to the young once.

It is immoral for religious leaders to gamble as it show bad examples to the followers.

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[CryptoHeadlineNews]

Recently, a Uganda pastor who won 100million shillings decided to shut down his ministry. This left me with several questions in my head, such as ' Do religious leaders gamble? Is it right for religious leaders to gamble? Knowing fully well that most of them preach against gambling in their religious places. What is the ethical and moral implications of gambling, particularly in the context of religious practices and beliefs?

News source:
https://www.reubenabati.com.ng/news/pastor-shuts-down-church-after-winning-n100m-sports-bet

Each religion indeed has a different interpretation for every aspect of our lives, of which when it comes to Christianity and most especially the position of a "pastorship", those set of people are always given the most regard, and as such acts as a role model to a multitude of congregations.
So for me, I stand to say that if truly that Ugandan man was a real pastor truly called by God, winning such a huge sum of money was an avenue for him to expand his ministry to most nooks and crannies of his city. But since he was a fake man of God that's why when money got involved, he unveiled his true colour by shutting down his ministry.

Note: The power of gambling

[panganib999]

First of, I know your first statement is opinionated, but it's just funny how you portrayed gambling as this "life-changer" it's a life-changer all right, for the worse that is.

As for your questions:
1. Do Church Leaders (priests, etc.) gamble?: I think so. But I couldn't confirm, there's a good amount of them that definitely succumb to these worldly pleasures either for the entertainment or the promise of greater money, if it's the latter then they're shit out of luck.
2.  Is it right for religious leaders to gamble?: I don't think so, especially if they took vow of abstinence and celibacies as part of their priesthood, but if they were gonna gamble anyway, the question of whether it is righteous to gamble or not is just going to fly over their heads.
3. What are the ethical and moral implications of gambling??: Not going to be the right person to ask about it, as some people have pointed out, since that just makes us judges of the people who're supposed to judge us which is a little weird and counterintuitive, in any case, I think they can absolve themselves of the "crimes" they committed, or if they couldn't worse that could happen to them is to have them stripped of their priesthood and the benefits that entails being a priest. As for the ethical implications of this, we all know well that gambling isn't something that came from a noble background, the very fact that we're discussing whether it's good or not to gamble sets that point in stone already. So you're basically just asking us questions you know the answers for already. But hey, I don't discriminate.

[Renampun]

In life we all have choices regardless of your culture or religion. I dont see gambling as a sin. It only becomes a sin when you don't gamble responsibly.
Yes, religious leaders gamble most often. Gambling does not stop them from preaching the gospel. Some gamble secretly while some gamble openly.

I dont think is a good idea for religious leaders to gamble because it does not show a good example to the young once.

It is immoral for religious leaders to gamble as it show bad examples to the followers.

although I am not a member of a devout congregation, I really hate religious leaders who are hypocrites, they forbid their people not to gamble - whore - steal - commit fraud but behind the scenes, many of them still do that. religious leaders are the people most often inspired by the followers of that religion, if they do bad things then the mentality and morals of their followers will be damaged and they could turn into atheists.

[fullhdpixel]

Gambling will not give you money immediately and but definitely.My Suggestion is don’t see the gambling as life source,instead you can do the gambling to get away from your stress.So you can away from stress from the gambling by playing liked game for certain period of time.Instead you can use the trading and special on day trading.Most of the day traders do the trading with little amount as profit.They continue the process till the desired profit reaches for the week.

Yes and the pastor know this already, that is why he came up with his own ministry first. He get money there to be able to bet and he luckily win huge after many attempts. Gambling is a form of entertainment to cure away our stress but what if our problem is money? I don't think playing a gambling can solve it but it will only make our stress more intense.

Trading is better than in gambling in terms of earning a profit but I don't advice newbies to trade immediately. They must learn it first and then practice. They also need to find a reliable source of income because trading is a high risk activity close to gambling. It may or may not provide us a daily income that we need to live a normal life.

[Crypto Library]

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In my opinion gambling is only good as long as it is used only as a purpose of entertainment and safe as long as it does not become an addiction. So from this concept, gambling can never be the main way of living for people. However, I would never prefer that someone depend on gambling for their livelihood.And since gambling depends on luck, there is no need for hard work and without hard work people never see the face of success, and those who get it by luck do not take time to lose it.
I mainly do sports batting and it's just to feed my entertainment.  I don't want to describe it from a religious point of view because it is not viewed favorably by most religious people.

[carlfebz2]

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In my opinion gambling is only good as long as it is used only as a purpose of entertainment and safe as long as it does not become an addiction. So from this concept, gambling can never be the main way of living for people. However, I would never prefer that someone depend on gambling for their livelihood.And since gambling depends on luck, there is no need for hard work and without hard work people never see the face of success, and those who get it by luck do not take time to lose it.
I mainly do sports batting and it's just to feed my entertainment.  I don't want to describe it from a religious point of view because it is not viewed favorably by most religious people.

Gambling is never been bad and just like what been said that as long you dont make yourself get addicted to it then you should be fine but we know that engaging on it actively could really give out that kind of

habit which might mold on to be for you to be an addicted one, this is why we should really be careful and be wary with our actions whether we are slowly trying to be addicted or still in path just because you do

really like gambling that much as your past time.There's no way that we could be able to determine but only yourself on what you do view about your current gambling.
Decisions made outright are depending on someones ,if he do stop and quit up then its his choice basing up on the situation OP stated.