In 1964, radio broadcaster Paul Harvey produced a segment entitled “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 its 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.”

To the young, I would whisper that, “The Bible is a myth.” I would convince them that man created God instead of the other way around. I would confide that what’s bad is good, and what’s good is...square.

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

What additions might Mr. Harvey make 61 years later?

I’d imagine he’d have some things to say about these:

The convincing of young women that sexual pleasure is the sole function of sex, and the resulting fetus (child in the womb) is but an impediment to your self-aggrandizement.

That the sex of a child is malleable, and that one can be whoever or whatever one chooses to be, or can switch at will, depending on how he may feel at any moment.

That government is structured not as a protector of (natural) rights, but as a “provider” for the needs and the whims of the electorate, and that “other people” are responsible for my needs and whims based on their ability and my needs.

I’d create a great divide among the people, by convincing “people of color” that they are oppressed and that white people are their oppressors — that what one person has was acquired not through enterprise, but through theft.

I’d diminish the pain and suffering of actual victims and justify the violence perpetrated as the result of institutional suffering.

The churches would promote a “social gospel,” discarding sin and repentance, replaced by unconditional love and “all paths lead to salvation” hopium.  Salvation could come without the cross.  Claiming that “Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life,” and that “no one comes to the Father except through me” would be deemed blasphemy.

Lastly, I would divide the American Right by asserting that Israel does not have a special place in God’s heart and promote a whisper campaign among certain “influencers” (Wormwoods) that Jews — not the globalist left, illegal aliens, unbridled debt, or Islam — are the cause of strife in America.

That’s what I would do if I were the devil.

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