If I Were The Devil                                                                                       

by   Paul Harvey                                                                                                                                         Vol. XV, No. 1, January 2002

If I Were The Devil, I would gain control of the most powerful nation in the world:
 

-- I would delude their minds into thinking that they had come from man's effort, instead of God's blessings;

-- I would promote an attitude of loving things and using people, instead of the other way around;

-- I would dupe entire states into relying on gambling for their state revenue;

-- I would convince people that character is not an issue when it comes to leadership;

-- I would make it legal to take the life of unborn babies; I would make it socially acceptable to take one's own life, and invent machines to make it convenient;

-- I would cheapen human life as much as possible so that the life of animals are valued more than human beings;

-- I would take God out of the schools, where even the mention of His name was grounds for a lawsuit;

-- I would come up with drugs that sedate the mind and target the young, and I would get sports heroes to advertise them;

-- I would get control of the media, so that every night I could pollute the mind of every family member for my agenda;

-- I would attack the family, the backbone of any nation;

-- I would make divorce acceptable and easy, even fashionable. If the family crumbles, so does the nation;

-- I would compel people to express their most depraved fantasies on canvas and movie screens, and I would call it art;

-- I would convince the world that people are born homosexuals, and that their lifestyles should be accepted and marveled;

-- I would convince the people that right and wrong are determined by a few who call themselves authorities and refer to their agenda as politically correct;

-- I would persuade people that the church is irrelevant and out of date, and the Bible is for the naive;

-- I would dull the minds of Christians, and make them believe that prayer is not important, and that faithfulness and obedience are optional.

I guess I would leave things pretty much the way they are.