Are Playing Cards Evil ??? (Jesus Christ, moral, testimony, beliefs, bible)

[FFH]

Are Playing Cards Evil ???

Should Christians Play Cards?

International Playing-Card Society - Brief History of Playing-Cards

[Jaymes]

Yes. Every time I play "Go Fish" with my four year old sister, not much later I always find her sacrificing small animals and glowing red. I never thought to connect the two before now, though!

EDIT: If anyone's interested, they can read here about the real history of and meaning behind the images of the cards, including how playing cards originated in 9th century China... certainly not where Tarot cards are from, and about 6 centuries before the first Tarot cards were made.

[Bishka]

Hardly.

Every time I have played cards with family or friends I have felt closer to them then I have before and there is a spirit of friendliness, love and caring among us. Nothing evil about those feelings.

[MaddLlama]

Ah, I love it. When you can't be bothered to research real history, just make up your own! Gullible people won't be able to tell the difference.

[AslanDesu]

The KING card represents the Prince of Darkness - The Devil
The 10 SPOT speaks of the spirit of lawlessness. It speaks in opposition to the moral law as found in the Ten Commandments in the Bible.
Then the CLUB card represents violence and murder.
The JACK speaks of the loose living man, the lustful man, the licentious individual who only lives to satisfy his lower nature.
The QUEEN card represents Mary - the mother of our Lord. In the language of the cards, however, Mary is represented as an impure, dissolute, immoral woman.
There is the JOKER. It represents Jesus Christ.

..... lol?

[Popeyesays]

I think it deserves a ROTFLMAO actually.

Regards,
Scott

[Fluffy]

I don't particularly like gambling or even playing gambling games with something other than money like chips. Other card games are fine though.

That article is unevidenced and unreasoned.

There is a failure to evidence this "secret language". Even if it were true, people nowadays don't consider this meaning nor really consider cards as anything more than representations of 2 variables: Number and Suit. When you play cards, the fact that a Jack is a Jack is irrelevant since the only important attribute it has is its value compared with the rest of cards in the context of the game you are playing. Could this problem be solved for anti-card Christians by simply printing cards that said "1 A" "1 B" "11 C"? Or are they willing to admit that this is, infact, irrelevant to their dislike of card games?

People don't ask God to bless their card games for the same reason they don't ask God to bless their checker games not because one is more ungodly than the other.

This bit is my favourite:

No Christian should play cards. Surely no Sunday School teacher should play cards. The Bible said, "Touch not the unclean thing" (II Corinthians 6:17) As far as I am concerned I would not allow the "Dirty Deck" to desecrate my Christian home and tarnish my testimony.

People can believe whatever they want to believe; that is really cool by me. However, if you are going to try to justify your beliefs, and please don't feel like you have to, then why not admit that regardless of the justification, you will still hold that belief?

This is a classic example as the author has quoted a rather general passage and then added his own specific meaning to it. He has tried to use scripture to justify his belief when it is blatant that he is missing justification for his minor premise. So the reader is left wondering "why did he bother trying to justify it in the first place?"

[ayani]

no, i don't think they're evil.

except if it's a hard game and i'm losing fantastically to my 13-year-old brother.

[Bishka]

Like I've said before, if you let them be evil, they can be -- just like anything else.

[nutshell]

No.

Playing cards are not evil.