Is gambling immoral?



Is gambling immoral?

Introduction

Gambling is a universal cultural phenomenon: one of a relatively small number of activities that occur in nearly all societies and every period. Gambling might be said to have had a determining role in the antecedents of American Society. The Old Testament God created man with a natural propensity to bet, and the Biblical account of the genesis of Western civilization begins with Adam and Eve wagering a stake, their innocence, in the hope of adding knowledge to that stake. Too many, mans fall from grace and subsequent history are proof it was immoral, or ...