[video] – Catholic Moral and gambling: the problem of compulsive gambling
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CATHOLIC MORAL AND GAMBLING: THE PROBLEM OF gambling addiction
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For Catholic morality, gambling is not always considered a sin, but may assume that when gambling is offensive to justice and charity, exposing us to vice structured on the addiction that comes from our own free choice.
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Reducing people slaves irrational-emotional feelings, of illusion and dreams, It is not the worst form of slavery?
Modern slavery It is worse than that of the ancient Romans, it was a legal institution of civil law; an institution that provided for the emancipation, the slave liberation. And once it becomes Liberto, the former slave, species in the imperial era, He could make even brilliant careers. Instead of modern slavery, not codified in any law, because the democratic systems that promuono psychological slavery are those who condemn slavery firmly, but then made the same resulting in exercising massive controls on masses of slaves, for which it is not expected that legal possibility of emancipation already planned rather than two millennia ago in the Roman civil law.
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About Gambling, The Catechism of the Catholic Church uses a much stronger end of the term "addiction", uses the term "slavery". And here I would point out that not all addictions are in itself and of itself bad, sometimes they are not even harmful. Indeed, addiction", It can arise from our own glossy initial choice which can then escape our control, until enslaving, but nevertheless it starting from an initial act of our free will. There are in fact two different forms of slavery: We can be enslaved by a violent total deprivation of liberty, or we can be enslaved by various forms of psychological dependence, almost without realizing it [follows the conference video …]
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