Re: 47 year old wisdom...If I were the Devil

If I were god I would actually exist?

and the party would never end!

On Mar 21, 3:10 pm, THE ANNOINTED ONE <markmka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If I were the Devil . . . I mean, if I were the Prince of Darkness, I
> would of course, want to engulf the whole earth in darkness. I would
> have a third of its real estate and four-fifths of its population, but
> I would not be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree,
> so I should set about however necessary to take over the United
> States. I would begin with a campaign of whispers. With the wisdom of
> a serpent, I would whisper to you as I whispered to Eve: "Do as you
> please." "Do as you please."   To the young, I would whisper, "The
> Bible is a myth." I would convince them that man created God instead
> of the other way around. I would confide that what is bad is good, and
> what is good is "square." In the ears of the young marrieds, I would
> whisper that work is debasing, that cocktail parties are good for you.
> I would caution them not to be extreme in religion, in patriotism, in
> moral conduct. And the old, I would teach to pray. I would teach them
> to say after me: "Our Father, which art in Washington"…
> If I were the devil, I'd educate authors in how to make lurid
> literature exciting so that anything else would appear dull an
> uninteresting. I'd threaten T.V. with dirtier movies and vice versa.
> And then, if I were the devil, I'd get organized. I'd infiltrate
> unions and urge more loafing and less work, because idle hands usually
> work for me. I'd peddle narcotics to whom I could. I'd sell alcohol to
> ladies and gentlemen of distinction. And I'd tranquilize the rest with
> pills. If I were the devil, I would encourage schools to refine young
> intellects but neglect to discipline emotions . . . let those run
> wild. I would designate an atheist to front for me before the highest
> courts in the land and I would get preachers to say "she's right."
> With flattery and promises of power, I could get the courts to rule
> what I construe as against God and in favor of pornography, and thus,
> I would evict God from the courthouse, and then from the school house,
> and then from the houses of Congress and then, in His own churches I
> would substitute psychology for religion, and I would deify science
> because that way men would become smart enough to create super weapons
> but not wise enough to control them.
> If I were Satan, I'd make the symbol of Easter an egg, and the symbol
> of Christmas, a bottle. If I were the devil, I would take from those
> who have and I would give to those who wanted, until I had killed the
> incentive of the ambitious. And then, my police state would force
> everybody back to work. Then, I could separate families, putting
> children in uniform, women in coal mines, and objectors in slave
> camps. In other words, if I were Satan, I'd just keep on doing what
> he's doing.
> Paul Harvey, Good Day.

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