Hahaha. They irony in the gamble the puritans took to come to the US to start.

...First, when there is somewhere to go to get away from religious persecution, that is a more or less a rational gamble.

Second, are you really condescendingly equating compulsive gambling with escaping societal scale persecution or strife resulting from incompatibilities of religious belief with the State religion?

That's a bit of a stretch.