To: Praedo, current leader of propaganda.

Your efforts have shown great improvement of late, but do not allow yourself to become complacent as the Enemy surely isn't. You can be certain He is working steadily, and if you do not do likewise, opportunities will certainly be missed and battles lost. Our Master would not look favorably on such an end result.

More can be done to encourage wrong behavior. News programs that celebrate criminals are very useful. Make no mention of those doing what is right or following the Enemy, unless they fail or can be scandalized in some manner. We want to give the humans ideas, but not in His direction. The only ones who should be mentioned are the criminals and others with equally poor life choices. Focus on these extensively, show their faces and report their names, tally the hurt and injured as a result, find their friends and family and stick microphones and cameras in their faces; be sure to tell every detail of the criminals' life and activities. Let the world know anyone can become famous for doing wrong, and the bigger the wrong, the more fame they can attract. Competitive creatures, the humans; they will turn it into a contest with very little encouragement from us to see who can hold the record for the worst.

As the criminal activities increase and become even more widely known, another opportunity presents itself to us. As you well know, one of the most effective weapons against the humans is doubt, and a particularly useful form of doubt is worry. Worrying they'll have enough money to reach the next paycheck, worrying their neighbors will start trouble, worrying someone they don't even know won't like them for one reason or another, worrying if their car will break down and need repairs they can't afford, and so forth. Worry is the manifestation of doubting Him for when they doubt He cares and will help them, the humans feel an ever increasing burden on their own shoulders. It is this weight of worry we can use to bury them.

All forms of media, especially the news programs, should be utilized to their full potential to make the creatures worry. Indeed, the morning and evening news programs should be a veritable to do list of things to worry about. Are their children safe at school? Are their jobs safe? Are their freedoms safe? Is their country going to hold together? Press these points hard to convince the humans everyone is teetering on the edge of disaster.

Our warriors are positioned on many fronts, awaiting their moment, and with the right push from your department, the humans will be primed to fall. The more we can get the humans to focus on their perceived problems, the less they will think about the One who can save them. Reinforce the idea that the problems facing the humans are too large, their enemies too powerful for them to even bother resisting. They need to believe they can't win so they won't even bother trying to fight back. Futility and uselessness are the feelings we want surrounding them at all times.

In movies and television programs, have constant reminders of the problems people face; don't let the humans escape them. Whatever you do, keep any useful advice far from the humans. Solving their problems is the intent of the Enemy, which we must thwart at every opportunity. The longer the troubles endure for the people to fear or fight over, the better for our cause.

Do your best to discourage them from working together. Show teamwork as a hassle and how other people only create more problems. Let them see stories of betrayal and selfish ambition, so they know when push comes to shove, they had better be looking out for themselves because no one else will. Reinforce this self-serving notion of singular importance by having characters of such a mindset succeed. Kill off or severely damage selfless characters to dissuade the audience from doing likewise and suffering a similar fate.

The more the humans are isolated, the more they become weaker and easier to break. For this reason, limit your attacks against the Church as a whole and focus more on discrediting and isolating the individual members. The last thing we need is them coming together with a unified purpose and turning to Him for guidance. If each can be made to think they are alone and helpless, unable to confide in others as it would only cause more trouble, they will spend all their time worrying instead of praying, and our mission will be complete.

Signed,

Malum

The Devil's Hand