If I Were The Devil

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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 staterevenue;

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 lives 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, because 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I would persuade people that the church is irrelevant and out of date, and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.

Good Day

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