I agree.
Texas was one of the last ones to fall for it. Everyone mocked the “bible-thumpers” who didn’t want ‘state-sponsored gambling.’
Indeed, the people it taught the most to was the legislators who found a new cash cow they could milk.
I was driving and thinking a little bit ago about work. Americans have been a working society even as Europe and Co. has descended over the years. My thought is that biblically work is a virtue. It can become a god like anything else, but it is a virtue when practiced wisely. Thus, the people we see today, lottery winners on food stamps because it is a ‘right’ see no virtue in work. Don’t be surprised by this woman because I know a 20 year old boy/man we took care of 3 years ago that would be the very same way. Way too much rambling but now I feel better. Contraception, work, doing things right have all been heavy on the mind lately and I thank God for the burden. We have so much to teach that has been lost in the past 50 years.