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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 cocktail 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.

Seeing as this was broadcast back in 1965 I am sure some of you have seen it before. However, I hadn't and felt like sharing it with you all in case you also had not.

I believe I know who/what Mr. Harvey was talking about back then and I think that unfortunately the situation has only degraded since this broadcast.

Clearly, more Jesus is the only solution to all our problems.

Muahaha, sorry about the delay, apparently i missed some redtape i had to go through and so after my initial post i was unable to make any more political posts. The situation is now happily resolved.

Sini, while I understand that after reading this you would walk away with the opinion that it calls for 'more Jesus', i think that it really is just calling for more morality.

BINGO! But Sini thinks that "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" is Jesus speak for "WORSHIP MY GOD OR BURN IN HELL!" He can't see that every moral law/idea can be simplified to that simple statement, and has nothing to do with religion.

How would you go about quantifying what is more (or less) moral?

Bonus question, what kind of problems should we attempt to solve with morality?

How about the economy for one? Is it moral to say you're helping the economy by taking my hard earned money and giving it out to undeserving people and companies.

How about billing higher taxes as the way out of our economic woes. Anyone that took high school economics and has some common sense knows that taxes can only ever affect the economy in a negative way.

Or, to simplify my answer, how about our president and branches of government stop lying through those teeth. Lying is immoral. Lets start there. :D

Yes the progressive way to bash down what they don't like and make people feel bad about what they believe.
Keep asking questions without giving any solutions.
Keep telling us that morals are not how we should live our lives but how we judge who is wrong.

NEVER EVER ANSWER HIS QUESTIONS. ONLY MAKE STATEMENTS.

Now now, let's cut Stubs some slack. He hasn't been posting here long enough to know the rules about feeding the troll. :D