LOOKING FOR PEACE

                                             

I’m a restless soul and I have spent most of my life looking for peace. For the most part I have found it in my life but it’s not my life I now worry about. It’s those of my friends and family that are left to live out their lives in this chaotic world. To those of you with a way to the Internet I ask you to look up the late Paul Harvey’s recitation of, “If I were the Devil” on U tube. He did this in 1965 and you would be amazed at how prophetic this piece was and is today. Was Paul some kind of a clairvoyant? No, I believe he was a very smart man. But what he talks about here. Well the handwriting has been on the wall for a long, long time. Here is most of the text.

If I were the devil

If I were the Price of Darkness, I would want to engulf the whole world 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.”

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 confine that “what is bad is good and what is good is square.”

In the ears of the young married I would whisper that work is debasing, that cocktail parties are good for you. I would caution then not to be “extreme” in religion, in patriotism, in moral conduct.

And the old I would preach to pray—to say after me—Our father, which are in Washington.

Then I’d get organized. I’d educate authors in how to make lurid literature exciting so that anything else would appear dull uninteresting.

I‘d threaten T.V. with dirtier movies and vice versa.

I’d infiltrate unions and urge more loafing, less work. Idle hands usually work for me.

I’d peddle narcotics to whom I could. I’d sell alcohol to ladies and gentlemen of distinction. I’d tranquilize the rest with pills.

If I were the devil, I would encourage schools to refine young intellects, but neglect to discipline emotions; let those run wild.

I’d designate an atheist to front for me before the highest courts and I’d get preachers to say she’s right. 

With flattery and promises of power I would get the courts to vote against God and in favor of pornography.

Then in his own churches I’d substitute psychology for religion and deify science.

If I were Satin, I’d make the symbol of Easter an egg and Christmas a bottle.

If I were the devil, I’d take from those who have and give to those who wanted until I had killed the incentive of the ambitious. Then my police state would force everybody back to work.

I were satin I’d just keep doing what I am doing and let the whole world go to hell as sure as the devil