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Sarah Coppin's avatar

Pascal’s Wager somehow comes to mind…

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Alex Goodrich's avatar

If you’re one of those progressive churches that cares about wealth inequality or whatever you could use sports betting as a great way to redistribute wealth across members. Or better yet, put in bets on behalf of the poor. Much higher return on investment than pooling tithes and running a soup kitchen or whatever it is churches do it help poor people.

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Jaimie's avatar

Don’t get me wrong, ETL, it was an inspired choice for this post.

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Darren Bridges's avatar

1. Predict a gambling winner

2. Place your bets

3. ...

4. Prophet!

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matthew pierce's avatar

quality comment

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Vern's avatar

Gambling is not God's path for Christian living.

Betting on worldly outcomes leads to distraction from faith and stewardship.

Our trust must be in Christ alone, not chance or profit.

God calls us to wise, righteous living, not risking His blessings for fleeting gains.

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Jaimie's avatar

Okay, but can we address the fact that that girl in the photo is the SAME GIRL as in the title photo for the article about all the ladies trying to seduce famous pastors; I just wanna know what the heck that forest-sprite-inspired photoshoot was all about and WHY

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matthew pierce's avatar

is it the same girl? i’m looking at them side by side like it’s the zapruder film. are you sure?

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Jaimie's avatar

Not anymore 😵‍💫

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Justine's avatar

So when a prophet places a bet, are they counting cards if God tells them what will happen?

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matthew pierce's avatar

this sounds like a theology question, i will have to ask my team

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Alan's avatar

As Norm McDonald said, "Gambling is a disease but it is the only disease in which you can win a million dollars."

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matthew pierce's avatar

the best

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