The power of christ compels you. To play the slots!

[bnwtwg]

Wall Street Journal article (paywall removed)

How a Youth Wrestling Club Became a Multimillion-Dollar Gambling Operation: The $2 billion ‘e-tab’ gold rush in states like North Dakota is keeping sports leagues, tourism bureaus and other nonprofits afloat

 

Makes sense to take advantage of legalized gambling? Well let's look under the hood. Christian values from Mr. gross amiright? American Jesus is Trained to worship the almighty dollar.

 

[WrestlingRash]

guy, instead of being a jealous anti religion clown, be happy that wrestling is getting some money. don't be so judgemental. loser. 

[bnwtwg]

43 minutes ago, WrestlingRash said:

guy, instead of being a jealous anti religion clown, be happy that wrestling is getting some money. don't be so judgemental. loser. 

The good book says otherwise about gambling and so does its' flock. I'm not anti-religion but I am anti-hypocrite.

[Caveira]

I’ve been to my churches gambling night.   What I didn’t like is they changed the odds to be more in their favor.  For example even money payouts on blackjack instead of 3:2.    
 

Jesus does not need better odds than Vegas lol 

[1032004]

I love calling out hypocrites as much as the next guy.  But I wouldn’t necessarily jump to the conclusion that Gross is personally involved in the gambling stuff, although the club doing that may be how they had money to hire him.

[boconnell]

1 hour ago, bnwtwg said:

The good book says otherwise about gambling and so does its' flock. I'm not anti-religion but I am anti-hypocrite.

If you're going to quote the good book, you might take a closer look.  It doesn't mention gambling.  

[KSoze]

I didn't read the article (paywall), but I'm not seeing the issue here based on the screenshots. 

Hypocrisy is a human characteristic. It's not limited to people who claim to be religious, even if those tend to be the easiest to identify because they cite things like the bible as justification for their decisions. 

If a wrestling club is smart enough to build out the infrastructure it takes to pull in $3M+ in revenue to fund its operations and hire qualified people, good for them. They must have one hell of a set up and well-paid people with all the cash flowing in. 

 

[Simpleman424]

11 hours ago, boconnell said:

If you're going to quote the good book, you might take a closer look.  It doesn't mention gambling.  

It doesn’t mention a lot of things that we can rationally apply the principles it teaches towards. Gambling in itself may not be sinful until you start to get greedy, give money priority over your life, trust in luck over God, being responsible with the resources God has given you etc etc. All principles (and others) that can be tied directly to gambling without saying gambling.

[GimJustafan]

well done on thinking way outside the box 

[Idaho]

And suddenly....just like that.... the gambling machine industry stock went up 200% and every mid-level team was in the NIL hunt. 

[CHROMEBIRD]

21 hours ago, bnwtwg said:

 

That is one hell of an income statement. Wow

[bnwtwg]

On 4/9/2026 at 7:20 AM, KSoze said:

I didn't read the article (paywall), but I'm not seeing the issue here based on the screenshots. 

Hypocrisy is a human characteristic. It's not limited to people who claim to be religious, even if those tend to be the easiest to identify because they cite things like the bible as justification for their decisions. 

If a wrestling club is smart enough to build out the infrastructure it takes to pull in $3M+ in revenue to fund its operations and hire qualified people, good for them. They must have one hell of a set up and well-paid people with all the cash flowing in. 

 

You stupid moron the first sentence literally says PAYWALL REMOVED but go off numbnuts

[AnklePicker]

Isn’t bingo basically a form of gambling?  Haven’t schools like Christiansburg VA been doing this forever?  

[Simpleman424]

1 hour ago, AnklePicker said:

Isn’t bingo basically a form of gambling?  Haven’t schools like Christiansburg VA been doing this forever?  

Are you asking from a biblical stance or in a more generalized way?

[KSoze]

On 4/10/2026 at 8:23 PM, bnwtwg said:

You stupid moron the first sentence literally says PAYWALL REMOVED but go off numbnuts

I'm sure Jesus still loves you with all that anger and hate in your heart. 

But if you want to test that, I'm happy to meet you anywhere you like so you can say that to my face. Clown. 

[bnwtwg]

11 hours ago, KSoze said:

I'm sure Jesus still loves you with all that anger and hate in your heart. 

But if you want to test that, I'm happy to meet you anywhere you like so you can say that to my face. Clown. 

Meet me in Temecula. 

 

[Simpleman424]

I feel obligated to say I’d get those numb nuts looked at before any fighting goes down…that’s nothing to mess with