{"id":28345,"date":"2025-11-05T23:35:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T23:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new50.info\/?p=28345"},"modified":"2025-11-05T23:35:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T23:35:23","slug":"in-1965-an-unforgettable-warning-was-broadcast-for-all-to-hear-54-years-later-its-sadly-come-true-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new50.info\/?p=28345","title":{"rendered":"In 1965 an unforgettable warning was broadcast for all to hear: 54 years later, it\u2019s sadly come true"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"332\">When Paul Harvey delivered his 1965 radio piece <strong data-start=\"48\" data-end=\"74\">\u201cIf I Were the Devil,\u201d<\/strong> it was heard as sharp social commentary \u2014 a moral fable wrapped in the calm authority of a broadcaster\u2019s voice. But nearly sixty years later, his words feel eerily prophetic. What once sounded like a warning now plays like a mirror held up to modern life.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"334\" data-end=\"803\">In the broadcast, Harvey imagined the Devil not as a destroyer of nations through war or chaos, but as a quiet corrupter \u2014 whispering complacency, distorting truth, and eroding virtue from within. \u201cI\u2019d tell the young that the Bible is a myth,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019d take God out of the courthouse and the schoolhouse&#8230; I\u2019d replace wisdom with pleasure, truth with opinion, and call it freedom.\u201d The monologue painted a chilling portrait of moral decay disguised as progress.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"805\" data-end=\"1154\">At the time, listeners heard it as an exercise in imagination. Today, it feels hauntingly familiar \u2014 a reflection of divided families, fading faith, and a culture obsessed with comfort over conscience. 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