Why can't you play cards? Folk signs and superstitions. Why can't you do certain things? Why playing cards is harmful
At all times, people have come up with some kind of entertainment for themselves in order to escape from the gray and boring everyday life. Playing cards, which date back to the 9th century, are no exception. It was then that the first cardboard sheets appeared, on which certain symbols were depicted and carried a certain meaning. Over time, playing cards have been modernized.
Currently, cards have a familiar appearance to everyone and are used for games, magic tricks or fortune telling. But it's not that simple. If we delve into the essence of the origin of the suits of cards and their semantic load, we will see that in fact they do not have a completely clear and pure origin (meaning).
One of the opinions (the main one) that prohibits playing cards
If you are a true Orthodox person and a servant of the Lord, then card games, magic tricks and fortune telling are not for you. There is an opinion that the emergence of card suits occurred after the crucifixion of Christ. Each suit represents the successive and terrible torment of the son of God. For example, the suit “Cross” is a cross-shaped wooden deck on which Christ was crucified, etc. Therefore, there is an opinion that all those who play cards simply scold and do not respect Christ. This is why there is a religious ban on playing cards, since playing with standard objects is a sin.
Beliefs and superstitions of peoples regarding card games
Existing superstitions and beliefs regarding card games among all peoples of the planet sound differently, but carry the same meaning. And here you need to think about it, since opinions expressed in different ways cannot carry the same semantic load. Let's look at the main superstitions and beliefs regarding card games:
- If you play cards often, get ready for poverty;
- Playing cards means bringing misfortune upon yourself;
- Playing cards for money is a game with fate;
- Winning at cards means trouble in the family;
Here are the most common beliefs, the essence of which has been traced for more than one century, but whether or not to play cards depends only on you.
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Hello!
No, there is no official prohibition, if you play cards or other games without interest (not for clicks or push-ups), not for money and you do not have a bet organizer, then this will not be considered gambling. And neither the director nor the police officer can prohibit you from doing this, even in a public place. True, if these prohibitions are spelled out in the school’s legal regulations, then you won’t be able to play cards at school.
According to Article 4 of the Federal Law of December 29, 2006 N 244-FZ (as amended on May 1, 2016) “On state regulation of activities related to the organization and conduct of gambling and on amendments to certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation”:
1) gambling - a risk-based agreement to win, concluded by two or more participants in such an agreement between themselves or with the organizer of the gambling game according to the rules established by the organizer of the gambling game;
2) betting - a game of chance in which the outcome of a risk-based agreement on winnings, concluded by two or more bettors among themselves or with the organizer of this type of gambling, depends on an event for which it is unknown whether it will occur or not;
3) bet - funds transferred by a participant in a gambling game to the organizer of a gambling game (except for funds recognized in accordance with this Federal Law as an interactive bet) and serving as a condition for participation in a gambling game in accordance with the rules established by the organizer of a gambling game;
4) winnings - funds or other property, including property rights, subject to payment or transfer to a participant in a gambling game upon the outcome of the gambling game, provided for by the rules established by the organizer of the gambling game;
5) gambling organizer - a legal entity engaged in organizing and conducting gambling;
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In Article 5 of this Federal Law:
1. Activities related to the organization and conduct of gambling may be carried out exclusively by the organizers of gambling, subject to compliance with the requirements provided for by this Federal Law, other federal laws, laws of constituent entities of the Russian Federation and other regulatory legal acts.
2. Activities related to the organization and conduct of gambling can be carried out exclusively in gambling establishments that meet the requirements provided for by this Federal Law, other federal laws, laws of constituent entities of the Russian Federation, and other regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation.
3. Activities related to the organization and conduct of gambling using information and telecommunication networks, including the Internet, as well as communications, including mobile communications, are prohibited, except for the cases provided for by this Federal Law.
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With respect, Nadezhda.
They play cards everywhere here. But few people know what destructive power they have for the human soul. For Christians they pose a special danger.
Cards were invented in 1392 for King Charles 6 of France, who was a mad man. The deck of cards was called the "devil's bible." In the 17th century it was called the “book of the devil.” And indeed, each card in the deck has its own. As knowledgeable people say, cards have a secret language.
At first, the authorities were tolerant of practicing with cards, but then they began to persecute them because they saw the interference of evil spirits here. Of the legislative monuments about cards, the Code of 1649 is the first to be mentioned, which prescribes to deal with card players “as it is written about tatyas” (thieves), i.e. beat mercilessly, cut off fingers and hands.
Decree of 1696 It was introduced to search all those suspected of wanting to play cards, “and whoever has their cards taken out will be beaten with a whip.” In 1717 Playing cards is prohibited under threat of a fine. In 1733 For repeat offenders, prison or batogs are designated.
So what do the suits and meanings of the cards mean?
The structure of a card deck is known to everyone: ace, king, queen, jack even lower in value, tens, nines, and so on up to sixes or twos in a full deck - a typical hierarchical ladder from highest to lowest.
The Joker is a frivolous figure in tights, a jester's cap, and bells.
In pre-revolutionary stage performances, a similar character was called Fradiavolo. “Joker” is taller than everyone else, it has no suit and is considered the strongest in the game.
Ace is a word of Polish origin from the German Daus. The German-Russian dictionary indicates the meaning of the word: Daus - devil.
The cards are so saturated with negativity, which in the beginning was laid down by the servants of Satan, that today only fortune-tellers tell fortunes with cards. They do not use chess, dominoes, lotto or other fortune telling games, but do use cards. because The cards contain bad energy.
Cards with their destructive power are used in casinos and other gambling establishments, destroying entire families.
As for the occult principles, their essence is as follows:
1. “Cross” (Clubs) - a card depicting the cross on which Jesus was crucified and which is worshiped by half the world. Translated from Yiddish, "club" means "bad" or "evil spirits"
2. “Vini” (spikes) - symbolizes the gospel spear, that is, the spear of the holy martyr Longinus the Centurion, with which he pierced the stomach of Jesus
3. “Worms” - implies the gospel sponge on a cane: “one of the soldiers took the sponge, filled it with vinegar and, putting it on the cane, gave Him to drink.”
4. “Tambourines” - a graphic depiction of the Gospel forged tetrahedral jagged nails with which the hands and feet of Jesus were nailed to the wooden Cross.
So, a Christian who plays or keeps cards (as well as using the services of fortune-tellers) becomes an enemy of God.
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The “playing cards” beloved by many, as it turns out, are a crafty demonic weapon through which a person, at a minimum, blasphemes the main Christian shrines. Here is an expanded and updated story about what these products are.
It is surprising that the information we provide for thinkers and seekers has never caught our eye, and is only found on the Internet in fragments. It is generally accepted that playing cards is a sin because of the feeling of excitement that arises from it, but in fact, card symbolism is much deeper and more vile.
All four suits imply nothing more than the image of the Cross of Christ along with other sacred objects especially revered by Christians: a spear, a sponge and nails, which were the instrument of execution, suffering and death of Jesus Christ.
Cross– this is the cross on which Christ was crucified;
Peaks- this is the lance that pierced His ribs;
Diamonds- these are nails;
Worms- This is a sponge with vinegar, which the torturers mockingly gave to Christ instead of water.
Taking, for example, a card with the image of the Cross of Christ, which half the world worships, they throw it carelessly with the words: “ club ", - which translated from Hebrew means " bad" or " evil spirits" The Bible uses the term club in a narrower sense: " Do not eat the meat of an [animal] torn to pieces in the field; throw it to the dogs"(Ex. 22:30).
Additional research
A comment received from a regular reader of the site on the original article forced me to delve a little deeper into the history of this “game”.
So, Sergiy Koltsov warned against whipping up passions and provided a link to an alternative study:
Listen, brothers!
My natural criticality rebels. Is there really a Jewish conspiracy everywhere? It’s clear that they are a chosen, talented people... [but] no less talented, in my opinion, is to find their machinations everywhere.
There is an alternative point of view on the origin of suits http://ta-vi-ka.blogspot.ru , and there clubs are translated from French as “ clover“.Another thing is that they took root in Europe during the era of the decline of Catholicism, and in Russia during the era of the decline of Orthodoxy, and became so universally popular as a result of the catastrophic secularization of life in the Christian world. Cards are just a tool for idleness.
We decided to remember the French language and read overseas reflections on the topic.
“The Gamblers”, Carl Ostersetzer (1850-1914)
For young French scholars
is told this is the story:
Le jeu de 52 cartes est basé sur l'ancien calendrier lunaire égyptien: les 13 cartes de chacune des quatre couleurs désignent les 13 mois lunaires, et les 52 cartes représentent les 52 semaines de l'année. Les 4 semaines de chaque mois étaient associées à l’un des 4 éléments (eau, terre, air et feu), ce qui a donné les 4 couleurs du jeu de cartes (pique, cœur, carreau et trèfle). Source: “History and origin of playing cards” – Samuel Zovello, 1935“The 52-card deck symbolizes the ancient lunar Egyptian calendar: 13 cards in each suit represent the 13 lunar months, the total number of cards representing 52 weeks of the year.
The 4 weeks of each month were associated with four substances: (water, earth, air and fire), which was reflected in four colors ( suits?) in the deck: spades, hearts (hearts), diamonds and crosses.
Source:"The History and Origin of Playing Cards", Samuel Zovello, 1935.French Wikipedia
even less verbose:
“The Gamblers”, Cézanne Paul Il est possible que les cartes européennes arrivent en Europe par l "intermédiaire des Mamelouks d"Égypte à la fin du XIVe siècle. Un jeu complet de cartes mameloukes découvert au palais de Topkapı à Istanbul en 19388, contient 4 enseignes de 14 cartes chacune: coupes, pièces, épées et bâtons de polo9. Remontant au plus à 1400, il permet d"identifier des fragments de jeux datés du XIIe siècle ou du XIIIe siècle. Les premières cartes à jouer éditées en Europe font usage des enseignes latines (bâtons, deniers, épées et coupes), probablement adaptées directement des jeux de cartes provenant du monde musulman10,11,12.Ces enseignes se retrouvent sur les cartes du tarot Visconti-Sforza, datant du XVe siècle.Les enseignes françaises sont introduites par les cartiers français à la fin du XVe siècle1, probablement par adaptation des enseignes germaniques (glands, grelots, feuilles et cœurs). Les enseignes françaises procèdent d "une simplification des enseignes précédentes, permettant une reproduction plus aisée, un moindre coût de fabrication et une production en masse par xylographie.
In the homeland of Freemasonry, in the country that was the founder of the most popular and enduring type of cards, the history of the origin of the game is given three short paragraphs (for comparison: more space was taken up by information about what symbols these icons are encoded in various computer fonts...)
Types of pictograms on playing cards of various territories in Europe, French Wikipedia.
« Maybe"that maps came to Europe from Egypt with the help of the Egyptian Mamluks at the end of the 14th century. In 1938, an ancient deck of cards was found in the Mamluk palace in Istanbul. ( This is truly an ironclad argument!). However, the suits were depicted completely otherwise, tambourine and crosses in our usual form were not there. That deck was dated back to the 12th-13th century.
The first playing cards released in Europe also played Latin ornaments and were probably published with the assistance of Muslims.
The cards and suits we are familiar with appeared in France at the end of the 15th century, Maybe(!), by adapting the colors of the German tradition.
French Wikipedia suggests that the simplification of the drawing was due to the desire reduce the cost of consumer goods(!) when printing using woodcut printing.
As they say, no comment... And “club” is not “trefla”, although the peculiarities of French pronunciation are a topic for a separate discussion.
Site research for thinkers and seekers
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A thorough investigation on the site of the history of the substitution of the church holiday of the Nativity of Christ with a commercial and ideological surrogate.
A scientifically based exposure of the scientific version of world history from specialists from the authorized commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Surely there are quite a few people who like to play cards just for fun, when there is nothing else to do. Moreover, many Christians do this without even thinking about whether Orthodox Christians can play cards? At first glance, this is a harmless game that does not carry any negative consequences. But in reality this is far from the case. And in the Orthodox religion there are certain prohibitions on card games, even if you are not playing for profit. Moreover, this is considered a great sin, which should be taken into account inlist of sins before confession .
Cards and faith
First of all, why should Orthodox Christians not play cards? It is believed that a card game is excitement, which in turn gives rise to an inevitable dependence that acquires the appearance of sinfulness. Orthodox people should under no circumstances be attracted to cards and play various games with them. Since the demon pursues only one goal - to tempt all those who are closer to God.
Having played one game and lost, a person will want to play again and again until he wins. Even if you are already addicted, everyone can say that they can stop at any time. But actually it is not.
In addition to excitement, the ban on spending time in card games has another interpretation, which carries a deeper meaning than excitement. The whole point is in the depiction of the suits themselves, which imply the image of the Cross of Christ along with other revered objects among Christians. These are items such as a spear, a sponge and nails. After all, it was they who became the instrument of execution, which brought incredible suffering to Jesus Christ.
The meaning of suits in Orthodoxy
As mentioned above, all four card suits carry a certain secret meaning:
- Cross means the cross on which Christ was crucified.
- The pikes are the pikes that were used to pierce his ribs.
- Diamonds mean nails.
- The worms symbolize a sponge with vinegar, which the torturers specifically gave to Christ instead of water.
For example, a player takes a card with the image of the Cross of Christ, which half the world worships, and throws it away, exclaiming “clubs.” Few people think about the fact that translated from Hebrew it means evil spirits, nasty. In the Bible, this word is interpreted as meat torn to pieces in the field, which cannot be eaten. It should be noted that each of the suits is mentioned in the holy scriptures and the Bible.
The unrepentant thief, who was crucified with Christ like a gambler, blasphemes the suffering of the Son of God, withoutsincere repentance went to hell forever. The thief set an example for everyone and repented on the cross, thanks to which he inherited eternal life with God. Cards are demonic revelations, so under no circumstances should you keep them in the house and play or tell fortunes with them.
Other games in Orthodoxy
There are several more common games, permission to play which is of interest to many believers. For example, a certain part of Christians do not know whether Orthodox Christians can play the lottery.
There are cases when lottery winnings very often go not to the player for his own profit, but to charity. Despite this, many clergy are convinced that the lottery is also a game of chance. And therefore, playing it is also a sin.As one priest said: “You shouldn’t gamble even if you really need money - as God wants, this is how it will happen in life.”
Is it possible for Orthodox Christians to play computer games?
Despite the fact that today there are quite a large number of different computer games, with different goals and tasks they are considered gambling and do not bring any benefit to a person. Therefore, playing such games according to the Orthodox religion is also a sin. Moreover, such games carry a fairly serious threat of not only psychological illness, but sometimes even death.
The Lord is always with you!
