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hearsetrax — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:54:47 GMT

<br />http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/devil.asp

Original Blog Entry: If I were the Devil . . .

Piaceri — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 01:29:10 GMT

This speech was broadcast by legendary ABC Radio commentator Paul Harvey on April 3, 1965:

If I were the Devil . . . I mean, if I were the Prince of Darkness, I would of course, want to engulf the whole earth in darkness. I would have a third of its real estate and four-fifths of its population, but I would not be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree, so I should set about however necessary to take over the United States. I would 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. Do as you please. To the young, I would whisper, The Bible is a myth. I would convince them that man created God instead of the other way around. I would confide that what is bad is good, and what is good is square . In the ears of the young marrieds, I would whisper that work is debasing, that snip tail parties are good for you. I would caution them not to be extreme in religion, in patriotism, in moral conduct. And the old, I would teach to pray. I would teach them to say after me: Our Father, which art in Washington . . .

If I were the devil, I d educate authors in how to make lurid literature exciting so that anything else would appear dull an uninteresting. I d threaten T.V. with dirtier movies and vice versa. And then, if I were the devil, I d get organized. I d infiltrate unions and urge more loafing and less work, because idle hands usually work for me. I d peddle narcotics to whom I could. I d sell alcohol to ladies and gentlemen of distinction. And I d tranquilize the rest with pills. If I were the devil, I would encourage schools to refine yound intellects but neglect to discipline emotions . . . let those run wild. I would designate an athiest to front for me before the highest courts in the land and I would get preachers to say she s right. With flattery and promises of power, I could get the courts to rule what I construe as against God and in favor of pornography, and thus, I would evict God from the courthouse, and then from the school house, and then from the houses of Congress and then, in His own churches I would substitute psychology for religion, and I would deify science because that way men would become smart enough to create super weapons but not wise enough to control them.

If I were Satan, I d make the symbol of Easter an egg, and the symbol of Christmas, a bottle. If I were the devil, I would take from those who have and I would give to those who wanted, until I had killed the incentive of the ambitious. And then, my police state would force everybody back to work. Then, I could separate families, putting children in uniform, women in coal mines, and objectors in slave camps. In other words, if I were Satan, I d just keep on doing what he s doing.

Paul Harvey, Good Day.

Youtube version, although some are saying this particular recording was in the early 1990's. Either way, it's worth a listen and makes you think, http://youtu.be/LJc8Mzg0C-c

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