IS THE NATIONAL LOTTERY A SIN?
By S.C. Hammond
Shem International London. £2.50
ISBN 0 95381 560 9
Should Christians participate in the Lottery or knowingly receive funding from an organisation which itself has been assisted by the Lottery Charity Board? This book is the author's 'theological' response to these two questions.
In a very direct, hard-hitting way, he states that participation is driven by covetousness and idolatry and involves serving the god of money. Any Christian organisation which receives money which originated with the Charity Board is benefiting from 'immoral (prostitutes)... blood money'. The author is sympathetic to 'promotional competitions' and in chapter three explains how the biblical usage of lots was not gambling.
