[sluggger5x]

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When it comes to matters of religion, you can make as many rational and logical arguments as you like, but you're going to have a hard time overcoming their faith and belief structure.

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You are absoluetly right that it would be difficult to change the percpective of many Christians. However, if you ask any pastor, priest, or scholar they would admit to you that there is not a single reference in the Bible that tells us gambling in a sin. The bottom line is that many many Christians are stubbornly proclaiming that gambling is along the same lines as adultery, lying, and stealing when it is obviously not even addressed as a sin in the bible. Basically, Yang would help sway some of those Christians who are indifferent or on the fence and I know there are many who don't really have a stand on the matter simply because they don't know the Bible well enough.

We don't need to change the percpective of extreme right conservative Christians though, we simply needed a champion who could be a Christian with solid morals to show that many poker players are GOOD people (whether Christian or non-Christian) to the general non-poker playing public. We got that in Jerry Yang.