{"id":4848,"date":"2025-09-03T23:13:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T23:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=4848"},"modified":"2025-09-03T23:13:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T23:13:22","slug":"chilling-warning-from-1965-comes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=4848","title":{"rendered":"Chilling Warning From 1965 Comes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A Chilling Vision from 1965<\/strong><br>In 1965, radio commentator Paul Harvey delivered a striking monologue, warning America of moral decline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Titled&nbsp;<em>\u201cIf I Were the Devil,\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;his message imagined evil infiltrating society to corrupt its core.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Undermining Faith and Values<\/strong><br>Harvey warned,&nbsp;<em>\u201cI\u2019d subvert the churches first\u2026I would whisper to you as I whispered to Eve: \u2018Do as you please.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He envisioned religion losing influence, replaced by moral confusion and spiritual apathy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Corrupting Culture and Media<\/strong><br>He claimed evil would twist entertainment, glamorize vice, and promote addiction:&nbsp;<em>\u201cI\u2019d educate authors in how to make lurid literature exciting\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I\u2019d peddle narcotics\u2026I\u2019d tranquilize the rest with pills.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Collapse of Society<\/strong><br>Harvey foresaw rising crime, weakened families, and the erosion of discipline and patriotism:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cIf I were the devil, I\u2019d soon have families at war with themselves\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I could evict God from the courthouse.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chilling Vision from 1965In 1965, radio commentator Paul Harvey delivered a striking monologue, warning America of moral decline. Titled&nbsp;\u201cIf I Were the Devil,\u201d&nbsp;his message imagined evil infiltrating society to corrupt its core. Undermining Faith and ValuesHarvey warned,&nbsp;\u201cI\u2019d subvert the churches first\u2026I would whisper to you as I whispered to Eve: \u2018Do as you please.\u2019\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4850,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4848\/revisions\/4850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}