http://www.christian-thinktank.com/qmeanelisha.html

And last but not least, always recast the trivial struggles of your daily life as a pitched confrontation between God and Satan (with you on the side of the most holy god, of course). It makes it much easier to justify your evil actions.

Oh, I guess it never hurts to also imagine yourself as a member of a minority beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyrrany of evil men.