Religious leader barred from casinos because of big wins.

[lovesmayfamilis]

As you can see, his “religion” is subordinate to money, and, as the OP correctly put it, he is the leader of a sect. But probably each of us understands what a sect is. This is where people, hiding behind faith in God, interpret the rules as they please and not as they are written in the holy books. Therefore, one should not be surprised that this “archbishop” is a player and serves mammon, not God. However, he walks on the edge if he believes he is doing pious deeds under the guise of faith.

[Moreno233]

From the article, the ban is not connected to his faith meaning gambling does not even contravene his belief,  rather that ban is purely business related, a case of the gambling companies protecting their business from bankruptcy.  I will say that the religious leader did not do well because as religious leading, even though gambling did not break any law both in his religion and country of residence, he ought to know that him gambling openly might be an endorsement of gambling and his followers might get involved without actually being well acquainted with the process of avoiding addiction and under-age gamblers. If he want to gamble, he would have done that secretly or through his aids. I know many religious leaders that do that in my neighbourhood and you will never know they are into gambling unless you are told. I think this ban will make him consider that option.

[Eternad]

Archbishop Emmanuel Mutumwa, who is the leader of Johanne Masowe eChishanu Apostolic Sect has been banned from betting in local casinos because of excess wins. His current win was about US$30,000 and these casino operators fear that they might go bankrupt if he continues gambling with them.

But the acclaimed prophet claim that he receives winning games from God through vision. He further stated that with his numerous wins, he has been able to pay school fees and start businesses for members of his religious organization. While other religious leaders perceive his actions as sinful, he thinks his wins are an avenue to be a blessing to the needy.

Is there any information on what game he is betting because he might be connected to someone that can provide information about fixed match since he has an influence to connect with people like that.

If his bet is just normal. Casino that reacting immediately with just 30K profit is probably small since they have the chance to recover it again since there’s always a possibility of human error.

Do you think a religious leader should be involved in gambling? Do also accept his reason for engaging in gambling?

It’s ironic to see religious leader doing gambling but still it depends on what’s their teaching towards gambling. I don’t find any problem if their religion is not against gambling.

Are these casinos right to ban him from gambling?

They have the right to ban any user based on their discretion to protect their business.

[yahoo62278]

Archbishop Emmanuel Mutumwa, who is the leader of Johanne Masowe eChishanu Apostolic Sect has been banned from betting in local casinos because of excess wins. His current win was about US$30,000 and these casino operators fear that they might go bankrupt if he continues gambling with them.

But the acclaimed prophet claim that he receives winning games from God through vision. He further stated that with his numerous wins, he has been able to pay school fees and start businesses for members of his religious organization. While other religious leaders perceive his actions as sinful, he thinks his wins are an avenue to be a blessing to the needy.

Do you think a religious leader should be involved in gambling? Do also accept his reason for engaging in gambling?  Are these casinos right to ban him from gambling?

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I was always under the impression that religious leaders weren't paid for their services? So does this mean he was using the churchs money to gamble? Or am I misunderstanding and he gets some sort of compensation?

Regardless of the above, religious leaders prob need to stay out of gambling establishments if they expect their flock not to get the wrong idea about them. Casino's have the right to ban whomever they want whether we think it's right or not.

[bitbollo]

It's quite curious that this leader bets in only one casino if he has these Divine visions/advantage.
Why doesn't he go and bet in other places too?
It could also be that he has internal insides or actually has some tricks...
If he really had supernatural powers he would be betting in all casinos of the world

[stadus]

Do you think a religious leader should be involved in gambling?

Nope, he must be a model to his people especially if gambling is against their teaching, because if it is, it's just the same as stealing, and it's still a sin.

Do also accept his reason for engaging in gambling?

It's for the good purpose, and if that's the only way he can find to help people, then we can't stop him, and who are we to judge someone who is trying to help. Though it doesn't look good when a religious leader is gambling, but I would rather look at the purpose than judge him.

 Are these casinos right to ban him from gambling?

Of course, who would want to accept a gambler that keeps winning, it's better to ban him than suffer the loss of business due to bankruptcy.

This leader should go to a bigger casino, a casino that doesn't know him so he can make bigger money, but I doubt he really see vision from God, I believe he was just lucky.

[Bananington]

Do you think a religious leader should be involved in gambling? Do also accept his reason for engaging in gambling?  Are these casinos right to ban him from gambling?

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I think gambling is a personal choice and despite the fact that it may be considered sinful in the eyes of many, am sure if he hadn't made others know he was a religious leader, he wouldn't have been treated the way he was treated.
Perhaps the acclaimed religious leader should go to another region or province where he isn't known, to gamble and check to see if truly he receives the vision of games to play and how to play.

The casino only did what they thought was right to save the reputation of their business more than the fear that he would reck them with his winnings.

[Bravut]

The ban is not relating to his faith as a Prophet but simply the for the good of the casino to enable them ride there business. I have a bit of doubt that such casino would operate because many will sense it as incompetence and scam call, which I believe there are other reasons we do not know about, everyone gambles for a reason and entitled to there opinion as I would not context this to be Religious or God inspired win.

I believe the Acclaimed Prophet, preaches the need for gambling to this followers, so they win like him too and believe gambling is not a sin, because I know Christianity detest Gambling habits.

[Renampun]

Archbishop Emmanuel Mutumwa, who is the leader of Johanne Masowe eChishanu Apostolic Sect has been banned from betting in local casinos because of excess wins. His current win was about US$30,000 and these casino operators fear that they might go bankrupt if he continues gambling with them.

But the acclaimed prophet claim that he receives winning games from God through vision. He further stated that with his numerous wins, he has been able to pay school fees and start businesses for members of his religious organization. While other religious leaders perceive his actions as sinful, he thinks his wins are an avenue to be a blessing to the needy.

Do you think a religious leader should be involved in gambling? Do also accept his reason for engaging in gambling?  Are these casinos right to ban him from gambling?

Reference
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God’s Chosen Gambler?: Bulawayo Prophet Banned From Casinos for Winning Too Much

I was always under the impression that religious leaders weren't paid for their services? So does this mean he was using the churchs money to gamble? Or am I misunderstanding and he gets some sort of compensation?

Regardless of the above, religious leaders prob need to stay out of gambling establishments if they expect their flock not to get the wrong idea about them. Casino's have the right to ban whomever they want whether we think it's right or not.

However, religious leaders are those who are role models, there is no way they can guide congregation members who follow them with the good teachings they say while their behavior is very bad and cannot be tolerated. On the one hand, gambling business owners certainly have a strong right to forbid people from playing at their premises, especially when those playing are religious leaders, which will certainly hurt many church followers.

[aioc]

Archbishop Emmanuel Mutumwa, who is the leader of Johanne Masowe eChishanu Apostolic Sect has been banned from betting in local casinos because of excess wins. His current win was about US$30,000 and these casino operators fear that they might go bankrupt if he continues gambling with them.

Where's the moral of this religious leader he is an archbishop that's a few step to become a Pope if I am not mistaken this is Christian Church if this is true he can be reported and his position will be taken away from him the Roman Catholic hierachy forbid their leaders from directly engaging in vice the local casinos can report it to the higher Church authorities to punish this archbishop he is such a bad example to the oraganization.

But the acclaimed prophet claim that he receives winning games from God through vision. He further stated that with his numerous wins, he has been able to pay school fees and start businesses for members of his religious organization. While other religious leaders perceive his actions as sinful, he thinks his wins are an avenue to be a blessing to the needy.

He just want to justify his gambling, God will not lead his followers to vices or rely to gambling whether he uses the winning to help others he is promoting gambling and for people to rely on gambling, if this continue his followers will indulge to gambling that will result to losing money, reputation and relationships.

[uneng]

Do you think a religious leader should be involved in gambling? Do also accept his reason for engaging in gambling?  Are these casinos right to ban him from gambling?

I think religious leaders are humans like any other, so they have the same needs every of us have, including to have entertainment moments to relief from stress of the daily life. So as long as they gamble responsively, I don't think it's an issue at all. However, the fact he is claiming to be consistently winning because God is granting it to him through visions it's worrying in my opinion, because it sounds like charlatanism.

It can be propaganda to give this man some notoriety in your country, so many people will go to him asking for predictions so they can also win from their bets. As consequence, he and his church get more popular, gain more devotees, and make more money, not through bets exactly, but through the people who are going to donate to the church and join his group. It's a profitable business which uses gambling as the perfect propaganda to attract other people who are also looking for financial prosperity...

That is the deal of modern churches nowadays.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

Archbishop Emmanuel Mutumwa, who is the leader of Johanne Masowe eChishanu Apostolic Sect has been banned from betting in local casinos because of excess wins. His current win was about US$30,000 and these casino operators fear that they might go bankrupt if he continues gambling with them.

But the acclaimed prophet claim that he receives winning games from God through vision. He further stated that with his numerous wins, he has been able to pay school fees and start businesses for members of his religious organization. While other religious leaders perceive his actions as sinful, he thinks his wins are an avenue to be a blessing to the needy.

Do you think a religious leader should be involved in gambling? Do also accept his reason for engaging in gambling?  Are these casinos right to ban him from gambling?

First, let me say that the casino does have a right to ban him from playing on their casino, most especially if they perceive that his participation in gambling on their casino will lead them into bankruptcy, so, to protect themselves and their business, banning the prophet is very understandable.
But there is good news, and the good news is that, if one casino banned him, there are several other casinosdl for him to continue playing on, even the online casinos are there for him if he wishes to continue gambling.

Secondly, good motive or intentions is not a justification for wrong doing.
Though the prophet might sure have a good motives or intentions as to why he engages in gambling, but on the other hand, this does not justify the fact that what he is doing is wrong.
As a religious leader, he should teach people to work hard for their money, and not to gamble for it, alot of his members and believers are gonna go into gambling believing it to be a good source of income, and many of them are definitely going to lose monies they aren't prepared to lose.

[pawanjain]

Archbishop Emmanuel Mutumwa, who is the leader of Johanne Masowe eChishanu Apostolic Sect has been banned from betting in local casinos because of excess wins. His current win was about US$30,000 and these casino operators fear that they might go bankrupt if he continues gambling with them.

But the acclaimed prophet claim that he receives winning games from God through vision. He further stated that with his numerous wins, he has been able to pay school fees and start businesses for members of his religious organization. While other religious leaders perceive his actions as sinful, he thinks his wins are an avenue to be a blessing to the needy.

Do you think a religious leader should be involved in gambling? Do also accept his reason for engaging in gambling?  Are these casinos right to ban him from gambling?

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Why bring religion to gambling at first place ? Let's just see it as a person who is winning money from gambling.
I don't agree to ban the user directly from gambling but we can restrict a gambler who is always winning money.
After a certain win if the gambler keeps winning then casino owners can impose a restriction on him because that's how they can keep the business running.

[Beparanf]

Why bring religion to gambling at first place ? Let's just see it as a person who is winning money from gambling.

I believe because religion typically teaches that gambling is taboo or unethical to do due to greediness while the subject is a preacher of this teaching which show hypocrisy.

I don't agree to ban the user directly from gambling but we can restrict a gambler who is always winning money.
After a certain win if the gambler keeps winning then casino owners can impose a restriction on him because that's how they can keep the business running.

Is there any difference between banning to restricting? Both of this action has same effect to gambler since they can’t use the casino anymore to gamble. I believe limiting is the right term if you are pertaining to decreasing the amount of bet which players can put on his bets.

[Saint-loup]

I hope he wasn't gambling with the funds of his church and his community, because we have already seen this kind of story from some priests. Usually to get big winnings you need to bet big stakes too. So I wonder if he didn't embezzle money from his church but this time he managed to be lucky enough to get some big winnings instead of losses. At casino games some people make profits even if they're not the majority of people.

[Issa56]

Archbishop Emmanuel Mutumwa, who is the leader of Johanne Masowe eChishanu Apostolic Sect has been banned from betting in local casinos because of excess wins. His current win was about US$30,000 and these casino operators fear that they might go bankrupt if he continues gambling with them.

Any casino that can ban their customers just because they are winning frequently, I will say the casino shouldn’t be trusted. If the customer is losing frequently, will they ban the account? If they can’t ban accounts because they are losing too much, then they shouldn’t ban account because they are winning. If casinos are banning accounts if their customers lose so much money and keep on gambling, then I will say gambling addiction won’t really be rampant. Casinos just want their customers to lose, because that’s the only way they can benefit. If customers are winning, then casinos are losing.

Do you think a religious leader should be involved in gambling? Do also accept his reason for engaging in gambling?  Are these casinos right to ban him from gambling?

I know most religions are against gambling, but I don’t really see anything wrong with gambling, and the religion leader was even using the money won from gambling for things reasonable. Seriously,  I will encourage the religious leader to keep on gambling, and he should keep on supporting people.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

Do you think a religious leader should be involved in gambling? Do also accept his reason for engaging in gambling?  Are these casinos right to ban him from gambling?

Well, as a religious leader, there are some reasons he will give that can justify the fact that his gambling attitude is good. If truly he is winning and using the money to do good, then that's a good attitude of his, and it could also be true that indeed God is really showing him the games to bet on. 

I will not judge his gambling attitude because he is not compulsive, according to the story, and he is also using the money he wins to do good to his members. My only fear in this kind of situation is that what if his members decide to follow in his footsteps? There are some members who will want to be like their leader, and in the process, they can become addicted gamblers. That's my fear.

Lastly, I know it's nothing new for casinos to ban any customer that they see as a barrier to their business. Casino is the business of another person, and the casino owner is always praying to make a profit all day, and their profit comes from the losses of gamblers. They always wish for gamblers to continue losing, and if a gambler is always winning, the casino owner will find every reason to block the account.

[Sandra_hakeem]

Archbishop Emmanuel Mutumwa, who is the leader of Johanne Masowe eChishanu Apostolic Sect has been banned from betting in local casinos because of excess wins. His current win was about US$30,000 and these casino operators fear that they might go bankrupt if he continues gambling with them.

What casino would ban a gambler for winning only $30,000? What's their win limits then? Does it commensurate with what they earn from the loses? How well do they make sales on a regular?

But the acclaimed prophet claim that he receives winning games from God through vision.

I don't believe this bro. Cut it! So they wanna include God in their monkey business now? If he was someone able to accumulated several wins from just wagering, then he's lucky. Simple!  Don't you ever involve Spiritual things in your side jokes.

Do you think a religious leader should be involved in gambling? Do also accept his reason for engaging in gambling?  Are these casinos right to ban him from gambling?

Whatever decisions the casinos took was to their advantage, I believe.

[goaldigger]

Do you think a religious leader should be involved in gambling? Do also accept his reason for engaging in gambling?  Are these casinos right to ban him from gambling?

Every religion have their own belief and rules when it comes to gambling, if that religious leader is spending his own money and its allowed on their religion then why not but the question is, is he using his own money to gamble? Casinos have the right to stop you especially if its affecting the business already and as long as they didn't freeze your winnings, I don't see any issue from this and this is not the first time the casinos stop a gambler from winning more.

[Yatsan]

Archbishop Emmanuel Mutumwa, who is the leader of Johanne Masowe eChishanu Apostolic Sect has been banned from betting in local casinos because of excess wins. His current win was about US$30,000 and these casino operators fear that they might go bankrupt if he continues gambling with them.

But the acclaimed prophet claim that he receives winning games from God through vision. He further stated that with his numerous wins, he has been able to pay school fees and start businesses for members of his religious organization. While other religious leaders perceive his actions as sinful, he thinks his wins are an avenue to be a blessing to the needy.

Do you think a religious leader should be involved in gambling? Do also accept his reason for engaging in gambling?  Are these casinos right to ban him from gambling?

Reference
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Well, he has the rights to gamble as an individual and whether it has conflict with his belief, that'e him and we don't meed to do anything about it. Not all believers in the first place are firm followers of the teachings and that we all have our own sins. But going back to his grounds, he insists that what he is doing could be an outlet to help those who are in need. Question is, does this man really help others? Glad that he's winning but he should know what to follow for himself. If he considers gambling as a normal activity for entertainment then that would be fine but associating  our God in accordance with his stories won't because it could he an encouragement to other gamblers.

I hope he wasn't gambling with the funds of his church and his community, because we have already seen this kind of story from some priests. Usually to get big winnings you need to bet big stakes too. So I wonder if he didn't embezzle money from his church but this time he managed to be lucky enough to get some big winnings instead of losses. At casino games some people make profits even if they're not the majority of people.

Indeed this should be considered. One must use his own money to avoid conflict of interest . It is easy to gamble and all as long as the money is not creating any issue between him and his church.