{"id":5331,"date":"2025-11-05T00:57:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/?p=5331"},"modified":"2025-11-05T00:57:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:57:34","slug":"paul-harveys-1965-warning-that-came-true-if-i-were-the-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/?p=5331","title":{"rendered":"Paul Harvey\u2019s 1965 Warning That Came True \u2014 \u201cIf I Were the Devil\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 1965, legendary radio broadcaster <strong>Paul Harvey<\/strong> delivered a chilling message titled <em>\u201cIf I Were the Devil.\u201d<\/em> At the time, it sounded like a dramatic sermon \u2014 but nearly 60 years later, his words feel eerily prophetic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harvey spoke of a future where morality would fade, truth would be twisted, and greed would rule the hearts of men. He warned that if the devil wanted to destroy humanity, he wouldn\u2019t do it through violence or war \u2014 he\u2019d do it <strong>quietly<\/strong>, by corrupting values, dividing families, and convincing good people that evil was simply \u201cprogress.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said, <em>\u201cIf I were the devil, I\u2019d make the young believe that the Bible is a myth and that man created God.\u201d<\/em><br>He added, <em>\u201cI\u2019d lure pastors and politicians into mistaking popularity for truth. I\u2019d convince people that what\u2019s bad is good, and what\u2019s good is old-fashioned.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking at the world today \u2014 the chaos, the division, the moral confusion \u2014 it\u2019s hard not to shiver at how accurate his words have become.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paul Harvey\u2019s message wasn\u2019t about fear \u2014 it was a wake-up call. And maybe, just maybe, it\u2019s one the world needs to hear again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1965, legendary radio broadcaster Paul Harvey delivered a chilling message titled \u201cIf I Were the Devil.\u201d At the time, it sounded like a dramatic sermon \u2014&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}