Posted on 03/21/2012 8:13:52 AM PDT by navysealdad
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
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From googling, I gather that in 1993, he read this 1964/5 article on the air.
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It’s the last line: “In other words, if I were Satan, I’d just keep on doing what he’s doing.”
It’s what he has always done. Satan can only win if no one recognizes him for who he is. The first thing he needs to do is convince everyone that there is no God, for if there is no God, there is no Heaven. Therefore, there is no Hell, there is no Satan, and there is no evil. No sin.
He can only win if he gets people to buy into that. And he does so with rationalizations. Every sin requires one to go from thought to deed.
It won’t hurt me.
It won’t hurt anyone.
Nobody will know.
I’ll do it only once.
It will be fun.
It’s really not that bad.
It’s my life.
Everyone else is doing it.
I deserve it.
They deserve it (the worst kind of rationalization)
“Surely you will not die.”
Calling it “Satan’s plan” is a bit foolish I think. Satan might think it’s his plan, but God’s ultimately in control. Satan thought he came up with the idea of killing off the Messiah too, look how that turned out...
i did too, and later I would listen at lunch time at work
mark
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