How can anyone who believes in pre-destination think that gambling is wrong? In a way, it's a kind of sacrifice to God, right? [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
Seriously, though I have spent a long time contemplating this and in fact it is what drew me to this board (my first post was re:
Christianity and Gambling
Recently I had the good fortune to play NL with a full-fledged Rabbi, who told me he found nothing in the Torah to decry poker as a Game with an element of luck, rather than pure gambling which could easily LEAD to sinful behavior. I'm not Jewish, but hey, he's a Rabbi for crying out loud! Good enough for me. (He was quite a good player too actually...though I took a big pot from him when my quads smacked his FH on the river. Take that Judaism![img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img])