Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for February 10, 2021

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    B UTTONS  over 3 years ago

    But you’ll need to attend services on Sunday to collect.

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    Imagine  over 3 years ago

    The evils of gambling…and how to beat them (the odds, that is).

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    SamuelMeasa  over 3 years ago

    Double or nothing?

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    BigDaveGlass  over 3 years ago

    I bet you can’t give up gambling….

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    Doug K  over 3 years ago

    When someone says “Thank you”, sometimes I respond with “No Problem.” or “You Bet.” I don’t bet/gamble money-wise. I do gamble (take risks) sometimes with what I do (like standing on the very top of a ladder) or say (like making comments or giving responses on Go Comics).

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    cdward  over 3 years ago

    Oddly, I find virtually nothing in the Bible about gambling (but a whole lot about the sin of hoarding wealth and making life miserable for the poor and immigrant). I believe the prohibitions against gambling arose more out of the effects — which often left people destitute, making entire families homeless, often resulting in crimes committed to pay for the gambling debts. It was also a vehicle for unscrupulous moneylenders to entrap the unwary.

    But gambling itself is neutral, at least biblically and theologically.

    It can, of course, become an addiction and should be taken seriously as such.

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    Zebrastripes  over 3 years ago

    BTW…..Bingos down the basement….

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    rickseg  over 3 years ago

    When we lived in Pittsburgh back in the 70s my wife and I stopped at a church fair on the way home one day. Among the usual rides and booths there was one in which a priest was dealing blackjack hands to a couple of teen aged boys. Actual Las Vegas style blackjack to a couple of minors!

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    vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    I’ll bet the Fink wins.

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    JosephShriver  over 3 years ago

    Some take the no gambling/no betting a bit to far. An example, I was playing solitaire and someone told me it was a sin to do that. I was by myself and not betting anyone or anything on the game

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    rshive  over 3 years ago

    Bingo is not just for churches. When I was growing up, almost every week during the summer there was a carnival run by a fire dept. or a small town. Bingo in those was a big deal. Not to mention that it was prominent in almost every amusement park. If you called it gambling, some participants might have agreed. But I suspect more would have just laughed.

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    Ed The Red Premium Member over 3 years ago

    A friend of mine is a priest in a small town, and he told me about the time the ministers from the Protestant churches told him they were all going to preach that Sunday on the evils of gambling. They wanted him to do the same. He had to tell them that the Catholic Church doesn’t consider gambling a sin.

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    COL Crash  over 3 years ago

    Just like any other form of addiction, gambling is only evil when you let it take control over you.

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    WCraft Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Bingo, anyone?

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    geese28  over 3 years ago

    ….and the fink just snatches the money and leaves

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    spaced man spliff  over 3 years ago

    Vegas, Baby !!

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