Gambling: Don't Bet On It
Gambling is the "vice of choice" of millions and the fastest growing youth addiction in the country. Casinos, lotteries, bingo, the Internet. Legalized commercial gambling is a $700+ billion per year enterprise, enticing Americans to gamble more per day than they spend on groceries---more per year than they spend on movies, CDs, major league sports, books, and entertainment parks combined! But so what? Gambling: Don't Bet On It (Kregel, 2005) is a straight-talk look at this controversial subject. Should gambling be used for charity fundraising? What impact does gambling make on a community? Can gambling help support schools? Is gambling a sin? What is government's role? Isn't gambling just harmless entertainment? Why should I care if somebody else gambles, as long as I don't? Find answers to these questions and more in Rogers's one-of-a-kind book.
If the Lotteries were phase one of the re-introduction of gambling to America's mainstream in the 1970s and 1980s, and casinos were phase two in the 1990s, Internet or "cyberspace" gambling is phase three in the 2000s.
Legalized commercial gambling continues to increase nationally and is, therefore, a greater moral, financial, and political problem than ever. This book is one of the very few available resources that contends gambling should be curtailed if not eliminated entirely.
Gambling: Don't Bet On It is an update and a revision of an earlier book called Seducing America: Is Gambling a Good Bet? (Baker Book House, 1997), which is no longer in print. Gambling: Don't Bet On It includes new statistics, increased coverage of sports wagering, and an entirely new chapter on Internet Gambling.
Gambling: Don't Bet On It is available at www.kregel.com and Christian bookstores near you.
