Way back in college I delighted a very distinguished professor of statistics by remarking that a State Lottery was equivalent to "an ignorance tax." I was wrong. State-sanctioned gambling is a worldview tax.

"Everything happens for a reason," "I did my own research," "Somebody's gotta win, I got this coming to me, it has to turn my way eventually" and all the other secular versions of God's Plan, a world created to make sense for your in-group. Even without superstitions, even without church window-dressing. An objectively false metaphysics.