IF I WERE THE DEVIL
By Paul Harvey around 1992

  If I were the prince of darkness, I’d want to engulf the whole world in darkness and I’d have a third of it’s real estate and 4/5th’s of it’s 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 is bad is good and what is good is square. The old I would teach to pray after me “Our father which is in Washington.”
  And then I’d get organized. I’d educate authors in how to make lewd literature so exciting so that anything else would appear dull and uninteresting.  I’d threaten T.V. with dirtier movies and visa versa. 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’d soon have families at war with themselves, churches at war with themselves until each in its turn was consumed.  With promises of higher ratings I’d have mesmerizing media fanning the flames.
  If I were the devil I would encourage schools to refine young intellects but neglect to discipline emotions. Just let those run wild so that before you know it, you’d have to have drug sniffing dogs and metal detectors at every schoolhouse door.  Within a decade, I’d have prisons overflowing; I’d have judges promoting pornography.
  Soon I could evict God from the courthouses, then from the schoolhouse, then from the house of Congress and then from His own churches.  I would substitute psychology for religion and defy science.   I would lure priests and pastors into misusing little boys and girls and church money.  If I were the devil, I would make the symbol of Easter an egg and the symbol of 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 and what will you bet I couldn’t get whole states to promote gambling as the way to get rich.  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 can see on T.V. is the way to be and thus I could undress you in public and lure you into bed with diseases for which there is no cure. In other words, if I were the devil, I’d just keep right on doing what he’s doing.


WHAT IS GOING ON

Years back I took an oath, it went like this: I, _____________________ do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.

Over the years since I have taken this oath I come back to the part about support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. I have to say the foreign enemies have never worried me like some of the domestic ones mostly lawyers, lobbyist, politicians, banking elite and other power hungry greedy people. 

The afore mentioned oath reads I,_____________________ do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States, unfortunately it appears the Constitution is getting trashed.

This version of the Pledge of Allegiance more accurately
portrays the State of this Nation

I pledge allegiance to the flag of a nation that is
bankrupt and dying.
Not just financially in this sea of red ink but morally as well.

And to the republic for which it once stood.
Has our sovereignty been signed away?
(Read Artical 6 paragraph 2 of Your Constitution)

Which has forsaken God.
Injustice, greed, lies, debauchery.

Is divisible with special interest groups.
Over 30,000,000 laws. How many are pay-offs to special interest groups?

And miscarriages of justice for all.
  Unfortunately when laws are not enforced equally on all people
justice becomes a joke.



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