If I Were The Devil: Please Share

In 1965, Paul Harvey broadcast “If I Were The Devil.”  It is amazing that over 50 years ago how accurately he “prophesied” the future spiritual condition of the United States. 

Many of his statements were considered ridiculously outlandish at that time in history.  Yet, here is where we are and find ourselves today in 2016, with astonishing 100% accuracy of everything that has come true since his broadcast . . .

PAUL HARVEY’S ‘IF I WERE THE DEVIL’ 
 
"If I were the devil … If I were the Prince of Darkness, I’d want to engulf the whole world in darkness.  And I’d have a third of it’s real estate, and four-fifths of its population, but I wouldn’t be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree — Thee.

So I’d set about however necessary to take over the United States.  I’d subvert the churches first — I’d 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’, there are no rules, especially with sex and whom you have it with, or of which of the sexes you have it with, even if it is both.

To the young, I would whisper that ‘The Bible is a myth.’  I would convince them thru schools, cultural warping, rewriting the history of America's founders, and the media that man created God instead of the other way around.  I would confide that what’s bad is good, and that what’s good is ‘bad.’  And for the old and older, I would teach them to pray after me, ‘Our Father, which art in Washington, give me this day my daily bread…’

And then I’d get organized.  I’d educate authors in how to make lurid literature exciting, so that anything else would appear dull and uninteresting.  I’d spice up TV with dirty movies, 100's of unfiltered channels, and vice versa.  I’d pedal narcotics to whom I could.  I’d sell alcohol to ladies and gentlemen of distinction.  I’d tranquilize the rest with pills.

If I were the devil I’d soon have families at war with themselves with 2/3rd's of marriages ending in divorce, 4/5th's of children raised in broken homes and paid child care, and not stop until churches were at war with themselves, and nations were at war with themselves; until each in its turn was consumed by each other.  I would make sure that this would lead to the acceptance of 100's of millions of babies able to be legally murdered before they could be born.

I would wreck the economy by having politicians trap corporations with the need for higher profit, and I'd create runaway inflation, an uncountable national debt, and the inability of Dad to provide for his family financially without Mom also working full time.

And with promises of higher ratings I’d have mesmerizing media fanning the flames.  If I were the devil I would encourage schools to refine young intellects, but neglect to discipline emotions — no, just let those run wild, no more corporal punishment in school or at the home, until before you knew it, children would be shooting children, adults would be shooting children, and you’d have to have drug sniffing dogs and metal detectors at every schoolhouse door.

Within a decade I’d have prisons overflowing, I’d have judges promoting pornography — and then soon after I could evict God from the courthouse, then from the schoolhouse, and then from the houses of Congress.

And in His own churches I would substitute psychology for religion, and deify science.  I would lure priests and pastors into misusing boys and girls, and church money, and would have adultery running rampant between the pulpit and the pews.  I would make it look like the people that go to church are no different in life than the ones that don't.

If I were the devil I’d make the symbols of Easter an egg and the symbol of Christmas a fat man in a red suit, commercialized, and hated by the time it arrived each year.

If I were the devil I’d take from those who have, and give to those that want until I had killed the incentive of the ambitious to create a society of socialism.  And what do you bet that I could get whole states to promote gambling as the way to get rich by promising better schools?

I would caution against extremes and hard work and patriotism and moral conduct.  I would convince the young that marriage is old-fashioned, that swinging single from night to night is more fun, that what you see from women on magazines, in movies, and on the TV is the way to be.

I would promote multi-culturalism and alternative lifestyles as the norm, and would entice people to coexist and live in peace and harmony with drugs, mysticism, and to love the earth, and to listen to trees. 

And thus I could undress you in public, and I could lure you into bed each night with new diseases for which there is no cure.

In other words, if I were the devil I’d just keep right on doing on what he’s doing.

Paul Harvey, good day.”