What is not known
about bingo

 
The controversy recently installed in Brazil about the banning of bingos, a measure taken by the federal government with a massive support from the people, it is always good to remember the lesson contained in chapter 11 of the book “Spiritist Conduct”, by André Luiz, where the noble instructor recommends to never play games of chance, such as raffles, bingos and the like, as a way to make money for Spiritist activities.

Brazilian newspapers published at the time the pros and cons of such banning.

As for the cons, obviously, the workers of such places, who, with their closing, lost their jobs. Of course that, in a situation that unemployment scares everybody, this could be a nightmare.

This subject cannot, however, be examined only by this point of view, because there are forbidden activities and condemned morals which also employ people, such as drug dealing and casinos. Because of that, this is not a one-sided subject.

Games of chance are extremely harmful to the humans and, in some cases, lead families to bankruptcy, and from that, a moral decay to a dear relative of ours.

In the section of letters of the newspaper Gazeta do Povo, from Curitiba, some cases against bingos were reported, for example this letter published by Veja:

“I’d like to say thank you to the government for the closing down of gambling houses, for whatever reason, and I hope they will never be opened again. It’s a permitted extortion, where people are not aware of their addictions: financial, physical, psychic, social and spiritual. I get annoyed when governors say that they’ve been missing the money that came from that. I believe that there are better ways of getting employed or making money. – D.R. (an addict who lost a lot) – Goiania, GO.”