If I Were The Devil. . .

IF I WERE THE DEVIL...........

By Paul Harvey

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 is 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 then funnel tax dollars to promote this 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I would persuade people that the church is irrelevant and out of date,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.

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Paul Harvey is the dean of U.S. radio commentators.