Saturday, April 19, 2014

Paul Harvey, Prophet

Paul Harvey's offering here is almost FIFTY years old.  It's not a Screwtape Letters re-hash, although Harvey certainly understands Satan.  It's short, easy to understand, and chilling.
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2 comments:

  1. jimspice4/20/2014 9:34 AM

    The radio version is only 18 years old, and quite different from the original 1964 version: http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/devil.asp

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  2. Dad294/20/2014 10:57 AM

    Actually, the version at the link is the original.

    The later version ('96) follows:

    If I were the devil . . .

    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 take the life of 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 for 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 I would call it art;

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

    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    I would persuade people that the church is irrelevant and out of date, and the Bible is for the naive;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;

    I guess I would leave things pretty much the way they are.

    Still correct.

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