Fifty (50) Years Ago, Paul Harvey Predicted America’s Future… Here’s His Chilling Warning.

Radio legend Paul Harvey was known for his patriotism and his conservative politics, both of which ring just as true over 70 years after he first took to the microphone.

Harvey’s most famous broadcast was probably his “If I were the devil” speech, which he first gave in 1965. On its 50th anniversary, it seems oddly prescient of what America has become in the intervening years.

The speech, which was about the decline of America through permissiveness and liberalism, sent shock waves through America when it was first given.

“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,” Harvey began.

“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, thee, so I should set about however necessary to take over the United States.”

“I’d subvert the churches first. 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.’

“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.’

“And the old, I would teach to pray. I would teach them to say after me: ‘Our Father, which art in Washington.’”

Starting to sound familiar to you? Heck, I’m surprised Obama hasn’t changed the first line of the Pledge of Allegiance to that.

“And then I’d get organized,” Harvey continued. “I’d educate authors in how to make lurid literature exciting so that anything else would appear dull and uninteresting. I’d threaten TV with dirtier movies and vice versa.

“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’d soon have families at war with themselves, churches at war with themselves, nations at war with themselves. Until each in its turn was consumed. And with the promises of higher ratings, I’d have mesmerizing media fanning the flames.

“Within a decade I’d have prisons overflowing, I’d have judges promoting pornography. Soon I could evict God from the courthouse, and 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 caution against extremes, in hard work, in patriotism, in moral conduct.

“I would convince the young that marriage is old-fashioned, that swinging is more fun, that what you see on TV is the way to be. And thus I could undress you in public, and I could lure you into bed with diseases for which there is no cure.

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

And what he continues to do, except on an even larger scale.

As the saying goes, the devil is in the details.

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