Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for being here. I want to expand on something we talked about

in the show this morning. Actually, something we're going to do next week. We'll talk about gambling,

sports gambling. It was an incredible hour of the show. We briefly mentioned the sports gambling scandal with the head coach of the trailblazers

and all.

But I quickly wanted to pivot into sports gambling and how prevalent this is among people

and how dangerous it is.

And I don't think it should be allowed.

Because I don't think laws, laws, well, here's a question.

Are laws here to protect our freedom or are they here to promote human flourishing?

Think about that.

Let's table that until the weekend, until next week, over the weekend.

Are laws here to promote freedom or to protect freedom or promote human flourishing?

It's an important question that'll lead us to two, down two very different paths.

Gambling does not promote human flourishing.

Let's leave that there.

So we'll chat more about that one next week.

But it was a great hour because we had all these people call in who were gambling addicts,

lost everything. And they all said they weren't here they are years later. They're not

upset at the money they lost. Although hundreds of thousands, one person was a million bucks

in gambling. It's not the money.

It's the time.

And I asked one guy, you know, what's a thing you miss that you regret?

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