WWJD With Pocket Jacks?

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We talked to God last night, like we always do. He calls us on the Bat-Phone. Anyway, God says you should leave us the hell alone and let us manage our habits in private. We’re going to continue to smoke cigarettes, drink whiskey, and play online poker despite your tacit disapproval. Maybe, just maybe, God’s talking to the rest of you too. From The Daily Bulletin:

“Poker’s newfound social acceptance has, for some, justified the morality of playing. Christians bet in home games and in Las Vegas casinos, for pennies and for Benjamins. Long the arcane club of some churches, poker night now happens openly a few times a week. “On a good night, it’s a good way to make money and kill some time. In a worst-case scenario, it doesn’t cost too much and you spend some good time with friends,” said Brian Richards, a 25-year-old home-loan officer and Rancho Cucamonga resident.”

Now if we can just bring the Baptists around on the virtues of Hustler Magazine, we’ll be in great shape.

Religious opposition to poker in steady decline [Daily Bulletin]