The following is an article purportedly from Paul Harvey that someone sent me today.

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 kill 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 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 with 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 call it
art;

I would convince the world that people are born
homosexuals, and that their lifestyles should be
accepted;

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and out of date, and the Bible is for the naive;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; Hmmm…

I guess if I were the devil, I’d leave things pretty
much the way they are. ….Good day
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I wasn’t eaxctly thinking of it this way but on my way to work this morning I was thinking about the creeping relativism that is affecting our sense of standards. There are those who are arguing that there can be no absolutes (which is a contradiction in its own statement.) Some argue that if society has standards then it might dis-enfranchise people who don’t meet the standard. But, if one starts to degrade standards, then where do you draw the line? In the process of drawing a line, then some may be on the other side. And that’s ok. That is what is meant by there being a standard.