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 divine blessing;
  • 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 pervert the Liberal love of personal freedoms into a lust for personal power and control;
  • I would pervert the Conservative respect for things that have proven themselves to work into an idolatry of the past;
  • I would convince people that character is not an issue when it comes to leadership;
  • 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 that human beings;
  • I would take religious ethics out of the schools, where even the mention of them was grounds for a law suit;
  • I would take a religion of love, and pervert its' followers into hating those that are "different" from them;
  • 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 numb the mind of every family member;
  • 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 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  • I would persuade people that religion is irrelevant and out of date, and that morals are for the naive;
  • I would dull the minds of religious people, 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.