That’s a pretty dry title for this post, about as aptly dry as Colin Jones’s “The 21st-Century Card Counter.” But the movie title’s better than the book’s. “Holy Rollers”—not just a play on words, but also an oxymoron that Hollywood loves. Remember that moment when the Preacher gunslinger swaps his clerical collar for a pistol in Pale Rider? And now Netflix has brought us Warrior Nun. It’s very entertaining watching the ostensible pacifist using violence to attain a righteous end.
Christians, who are presumed to have an aversion to gambling, take on the House, trying to stick it to the Man (meaning the casino, not the big G). The result is high drama, and subsequently a blackjack factory at blackjackapprenticeship.com [to which I have no affiliation].
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