A Day In the Office
I was sitting on a street corner begging for money. I know it seems beneath a demon of my caliber, but it was the job Lucifer assigned me, so I sat, and I begged and hurled insults as those who passed by hoping I could harden their human hearts. Lucifer arrived in a limo and with great fanfare, I stood up and tucked my cardboard sign under my arm.
Oh, I made a production of picking up the old hat I had been using to collect the spare change and dollars some people had given me. I took the money from the hat and shoved it deep into my pocket, I then tossed the hat back onto the street and climbed into the limo.
I imagine the sight of it will not soon be forgotten by those passing by. I hope it will cause them to hesitate to help others.
“I see you are starting to rediscover the joy in your work,” Lucifer said with a grin when he saw my display. This too pleased me, no need to be on Lucifer’s bad side. Of course, I suppose all his sides are bad.
With delight we headed to the more affluent. Fame and fortune are difficult things that so many of the hairless rats idolize and worship. They don’t realize that it brings about its own problems. The rich and famous are easy targets for pride, arrogance, loneliness, and despair. We took their hands and led them down the road of addiction, fornication, greed, and depression if they have no anchor.
When we were done there, we headed to Hollywood where we influenced producers and directors to push ideas that increased the bottom line and tainted the moral fibers of the people. It is one of our most powerful tools, allowing us to normalize sin, put images and ideas in front of your eyes so often that you become accustomed to seeing it, hearing it. We keep everything subtle, non-threatening just the way we prefer it until we don’t.”
When we were done with the rich, we targeted the masses. We joined a church protest that will be on the news later. We carried picket signs and screamed out lies and hatred cloaked as tolerance and love.
There is often no need for us to be extreme or entice pure evil, pure evil is too easily detected by most. Besides, pure evil tends to perpetuate itself, Lucifer is not needed for that. Instead, we prefer to serve as the catalyst. Once we start people down the direction we want them to go, they usually stay the course with a little help from low level yet powerful demons. Natural consequence also tends to lend itself to our purposes and keep things moving in the direction we desire. If we can then convince you to conceal their sins, we gain even more power.
Lucifer prefers we stick close to the truth convincing people they were doing the right thing. We feed on their sense of pride or make them too impatient to wait on the King. In most cases, his plans work best when they are subtle. He prefers we be the voice whispering into the ear of the church secretary telling her not to worry, it isn’t really gossip. Or the voice encouraging a small lie today that would make it easier to tell another one tomorrow. He prefers we sit beside the grieving, the lost, and the lonely helping them justify their anger and feed their pain. We find joy in blurring vision and muffling ears so that you can not see or hear the truth.
We work nation by nation, home by home, person by person. We visit homes and make cleaning up after dinner more important than listening to your child tell you about their day. We stroke egos and whisper into ears making concern over what the neighbors would think more important than what your spouse thinks. We never present it that way of course or it would be recognized for what it is and rejected. No, we keep the rats from seeing the truth but their inability to see it for what it is, does not change the facts.
-Morax
