What jobs should Christians avoid?

[JohnB445]

There are many jobs in the USA, people can work in a casino for example. Would that example be sinful?

 

[Joseph G]

There are many jobs in the USA, people can work in a casino for example. Would that example be sinful?

My knee-jerk is yes, along with bartenders, strip joints, abortion clinics, ect. But then I'm hard-core personally. I wouldn't work for any position promoting secular music or TV or movies or literature or any pagan entertainment. *shrug*. No Christians did for a couple thousand years, why justified now?

 

[Richard T]

There are a few jobs that directly cause one to sin. Joseph's example of a strip club worker. I think it is up to the individual's conscience and their leading with God though with some jobs. Casinos might be a grey area to me, even bartending. If you think having a drink or two is ok, then being a bartender is OK? You sure might have a chance to witness to some of the people there. In my own life, I once did a commercial for a Christian radio station. I felt very uncomfortable pushing this particular product as I had never used their services and had no idea what they were like. I never did anything like that again. Lots of marketing seems wrong to me. Misleading and hypes a product that is not needed or makes deceptive claims. I just saw that Breyer's ice cream was sued for saying their vanilla was natural. (You can get 8 dollars if you bought that in the last years.) There are some large companies too that promote sins and are woke that seem evil as well. In government too there are jobs one likely should avoid. Like working for anyone corrupt, or doing stuff that violates your conscience like pushing policies of regulations that are evil. An example to me is gasoline made of corn. As it does indirectly raise the price of corn that someone can starve. https://www.reuters.com/article/env...-law-over-corn-ethanol-idINN1115230920080211/
We also have a host of jobs where the company makes excessive profits, loans money at usury and while most modern Christians ignore this I have to wonder why? Martin Luther for example said a merchant to be just should not have excessive profits. That a day's wages is around the right amount. I can't say what is excessive but yes there are those that take advantage of others. Is the bartender that sold 5 drinks more responsible than the guy who laid pavement for the road that killed a family on the road. I think so, but who is responsible, the owner, the government regulatory of alcohol, the producer of alcohol the distributor and delivery person? Then there are a host of food jobs too that are potentially harmful. Can you sell unhealthy stuff with a clean conscience? Some yes, others perhaps not.

 

[public hermit]

There are many jobs in the USA, people can work in a casino for example. Would that example be sinful?

I think for most legitimate jobs in the USA it will be a matter of conscience. If I feel that working in a casino or tending bar goes against the principles of my faith, then I probably shouldn't be doing those jobs. Does that mean there are no Christians in those professions? I seriously doubt it. I think the more pressing issue is how one does their job. I can sell used cars honestly or not, and that will better define whether being a used-car sales-person is a job for me as a Christian or not.