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 are valued more than of human beings;

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

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     I would persuade people that the church is irrelevant and out of date, and the Bible is for the naive;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

     Paul Harvey
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Yours in Christ,
Paul N. F.

P.S.

I forgot to mention the date of the article by Paul Harvey, 'If I Were the Devil'. I saved it in October 1999, when I first read it.  It is possible that he wrote it earlier.