GAMBLING

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GAMBLING

• A Dangerous Pendulum

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It Is Wrong Economically

• Does NOT bring in revenue

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Wisconsin Study of 17 casinos 655m gross, 326m
netted

• Shrinks down
• To 166m with lowest estimated cost of
  compulsive gambling factored in
• To breaking even with mid-range costs
• To negative impact with higher costs

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It Is Wrong Economically

• Does NOT bring in revenue
• Does NOT help local businesses

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Revenue from lotteries, race horse gambling and
riverboat casinos brings Illinois government
approximately 820 million a year When they
spend on gambling, that is money that otherwise
go to clothing stores, groceries, and other
businesses. Also not calculated in the 820
million state revenue is the loss caused by the
increased problem of gambling addiction.-Senator
Paul SimonTHE EXPLOSIVE GROWTH OF GAMBLING IN
THE U.S.- The Congressional Record
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It Is Wrong Economically

• Does NOT bring in revenue
• Does NOT help local businesses
• Does NOT increase wealth

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40 of lottery winners end up in financial
distress.33 of lottery winners end up filing
for bankruptcy
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It Is Wrong Socially

• It will cost the community

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• For every dollar the gambling revenue brings into
  the state, it will cost 3 to 7 in hidden costs.
• - Professor John Kindt
• Business Department, University of Illinois

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It Is Wrong Socially

• It will cost the community
• It will cost people jobs

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• For every job created, the surrounding community
  will lose 1 to 2 jobs.
• - Professor John Kindt
• Business Department, University of Illinois

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It Is Wrong Socially

• It will cost the community
• It will cost people jobs
• It is directly
  linked to societal
  ills

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• 15.4 million adults and teens meet the criteria
  for pathological gambling
• This is directly linked to

Divorce Child abuse Spouse abuse Domestic
violence Bankruptcy Crime and suicide
1999 Summary Statement by the National Gambling
Impact Study Commission
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It Is Wrong Morally

• A devastating influence on youth

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• 1.3 million teens in the U.S. were problem
  gamblers
• 30,000 underage gamblers were turned away per
  month in Atlantic City
• 90 of teens in Massachusetts have purchased
  lottery tickets.
• - 1996 figures

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It Is Wrong Morally

• A devastating influence on youth
• A devastating influence on homes

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When it comes to problem gamblers.

• 20 attempt suicide
• 60 seriously plan their suicide
• 70 wish they were dead
• 99 commit crimes
• 100 become physically abusive

These compiled statistics are higher than the
same statistics for alcoholics or drug users.
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It Is Wrong Morally

• A devastating influence on youth
• A devastating influence on homes
• A devastating attack on the poor

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It Is Wrong Spiritually

• Gambling is coveting!

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Ephesians 55

• For this you know with certainty, that no immoral
  or impure person or covetous man, who is an
  idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of
  Christ and of God.

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Colossians 35

• Consider the members of your earthly body as dead
  to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire,
  and greed which amounts to idolatry.

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It Is Wrong Spiritually

• Gambling is coveting!
• It breaks Jesus 2nd command.

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Matthew 2237-39

• You shall love the Lord your God with all your
  heart, and with all your soul, and with all your
  mind. This is the great and foremost commandment.
  The second is like it, You shall love your
  neighbor as yourself.

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It Is Wrong Spiritually

• Gambling is coveting!
• It breaks Jesus 2nd command.
• It encourages a love of money

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1 Timothy 69-10

• But those who want to get rich fall into
  temptation and a snare and many foolish and
  harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and
  destruction. For the love of money is a root of
  all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it
  have wandered away from the faith and pierced
  themselves with many a pang.

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It Is Wrong Spiritually

• Gambling is coveting!
• It breaks Jesus 2nd command.
• It encourages a love of money
• It is sowing to the flesh

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Galatians 67-8

• Do not be deceived, God is not mocked for
  whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. For
  the one who sows to his own flesh shall from the
  flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to
  the Spirit shall from the Spirit reap eternal
  life.

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It Is Wrong Spiritually

• Gambling is coveting!
• It breaks Jesus 2nd command.
• It encourages a love of money
• It is sowing to the flesh
• It bears evil fruit

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Matthew 717, 20

• Even so, every good tree bears good fruit but
  the bad tree bears bad fruit.
• So then, you will know them by their fruits.

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It Is Wrong Spiritually

• Gambling is coveting!
• It breaks Jesus 2nd command.
• It encourages a love of money
• It is sowing to the flesh
• It bears evil fruit
• It is sinfully addictive

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1 Corinthians 612

• All things are lawful for me, but not all things
  are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but
  I will not be mastered by anything.

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It Is Wrong Spiritually

• Gambling is coveting!
• It breaks Jesus 2nd command.
• It encourages a love of money
• It is sowing to the flesh
• It bears evil fruit
• It is sinfully addictive
• It is worldliness

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1 John 215

• Do not love the world, nor the things in the
  world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the
  Father is not in him.

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Tertullian

• If you say that you are a Christian when you are
  a dice player, you say what you are not, because
  you are a partner with the world.

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The Pendulum is Swinging.

• And gambling in any form is dangerous
• Economically
• Socially
• Morally
• And spiritually

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