don't you wish everybody could...

Yes, you mentioned that.

Which evil doer of the whitch family?

Seriously, some authors of some of the chapters of the Bible (old and new) were very smart people or very smart god(s) and they had come to realize that gambling is addictive, which can become bad for your health, social health, family health, and financial health. Gambling is non-productive, it only redistributes wealth.

Take pork for instance. Or don't.

Tarot, like the OP said, is a bunch of painted... well, little painted pictures on cards. The reader puts a story together, according to his or her best abilities, and the listener believes the reader according to the listener's best abilities. The same sages who had realized that gambling is bad, had realized also that telling the fortune is a game of chance, because the farther you go into the future or the past, the less the likelyhood that the fortune teller would get it right. So now they had another reason to put cards into the Bible as Evil.

Not everything outside the Bible is evil. For instance, tomatoes. And bell bottom jeans. And googling. Oh! Can someone tell me if making a joke is against God and the American way of life? Whether it's in fun, in jest or in all seriousness? According to the Bible? I don't know, but sure would like to find out.

Jesus was never recorded to have uttered any. Buddha has been often reproduced in little jade statuettes as a laughing Buddha; and I've personally seen The Llama from Dala (on tv) laugh. He has a wicked one, one that wants to make you scratch blackboards with your fingernails to lessen the pain.

Yes, if everyone was more aware of the life that is all around us the world would be a much better place