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The problem isn't the lottery. Most people who spend money on the lottery would spend the money on something else anyway. They would just blow it. It's not like they are going to put it in their savings account for a rainey day. Or like they are going to give it to the poor and homeless. They're going to rent a DVD instead. Or buy cigarettes, or an extra bag of dorritos or whatever.

Economically it comes down to money being taken out of business and put in the government. It becomes a tax.

Spiritually it's not a lot different than wasting money on any of the countless things we waste it on. It is not good stewardship of our money as taught in the bible, but neither is renting 4 dvd's over the weekend. Or spending $45 bucks a ticket to go see the OU Sooners (when they are on TV for free.... one of my personal vices).

Granted the guy going to the football game is making a concious decision to pay for entertainment...and maybe the guy buying the lottery tickets is doing it out of greed. Greed..... that's one of those Catholic things isn't it?

I'm opposed to the lottery and would not buy a ticket. But I don't have the strong feelings expressed in this article. I know that the poor are going to be poor with or without the lottery.

Economically it comes down to money being taken out of business and put in the government. It becomes a tax. "The Pennsylvania Lottery...(proceeds benefit older Pennsylvanians)" One of the greatest lies ever told in the Commonwealth. Fact is, money budgeted from the general fund for Sr. Citizens never gets there because lottery funds ...when it actually turns a profit for anyone except the firm that markets the games to the states...replace that money. Budgeted money for Sr. Citizens goes into political mischief. One is forced to look at all sources of income that is tithed to the church. After all, there is no degree of sin is there?? Example: The nurse at a hospital that provides abortions is paid in blood money, even though she does not work in that particular part of the hospital, right? What then is the scriptural balance or guidlines for the church to follow? Maybe, "Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake: For the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof. If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake."ICorinthians 10:25-27 KJV Agreed, it sounds as if it is a form of "don't ask, don't tell", but these are not Clinton's words, are they?