What is your opinion of this speech given by Paul Harvey back in 1965?
And how accurately would you say it describes our world today?
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And how accurately would you say it describes our world today?
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Sounds like right wing propoganda.
Allah be praised.
Some of the things he says are pretty good, such as the overflowing prisons and the availability of narcotics and such. What he gets wrong is his teaching of the false christian god when he should be promoting the wisdom of the Allfather.
Propaganda.
!الحمد لله
A right-wing religious nutjob who makes a couple valid points.
stupid christian propaganda.
"If I were the devil" phrase makes me want to punch him, regardless, some points are valid and others are incredibly stupid, the separation of the church and the state is a good thing and it's ridiculous to say otherwise.
If an evil incarnate does truly exist, he does his best work through religion.
I would say its pretty accurate, my religion believes that their is a good and evil side. The good side is the spiritual, and the evil side is the material side. The body side.
puritanism is funnier when it's by the left imho
If I were the devil I would have been created by an omniscient god that knew everything I would ever do, say, think, or feel prior to his creation of me, and I'd also be able to be erased from all possible existence by him with no less than a single thought. Therefore if I was the devil I'd probably just chill because there would be no possible way for me to win the rigged war that god created the outcome to before the war started.
Hail Satan.
"To the young, I would whisper that the Bible is a myth. I would teach them that man created God and and not the other way around."
Can we really teach anyone that God created man? And that God isn't actually a man-made concept? Since it's debatable, I think we should give people multiple perspectives and let them do their own research and make their own conclusions on what they believe to be true.
"I'd educate authors on how to make lurid literature exciting so that anything else would appear dull and uninteresting."
I think this one is too vague in it's use of the terms lurid and literature. Does it mean fiction, or educational literature? Not sure exactly what point is being made here.
"I'd threaten TV with dirtier movies and vice versa."
Is the term dirty being used as 'more sexual in nature' or just more gritty and dark? Either way, I don't think there's anything wrong with this. If someone doesn't like watching this type of stuff, then they don't have to watch it. I don't think there's really an over-saturation of that kind of stuff. It's more about preference than anything else.
"I'd soon have families at war with themselves, churches at war with themselves, and nations at war with themselves, until each in it's turn was consumed."
The message I've gotten from this is that we're fighting each other to the point where we are destroying ourselves. He's certainly right, but this has always been the case. Humans are a destructive species, and always has been.
"I would encourage schools to refine young intellects, but neglect to discipline emotions-just let those run wild."
This speech might have been referring specifically to America, so I can't comment on whether this applies there, but I can say that I think this is untrue in my experiences. I'd say my school goes out of his way to discourage showing emotions. Nobody sounds like they have a passion for any of the work they do.
"I'd have prisons overflowing."
From what I've heard, this has become an issue in the U.S and other countries. Really, I think we should stop putting criminals back on the street and saying "Fuck you, don't break the law again". If we make it hard for people to make a honest living, then what choice do we leave them but to turn to crime again?
"I'd have judges promoting pornography."
Again, this could be referring to the United States, so I'm not sure what this is talking about.
"Soon I could evict God from the courthouse, and then from the schoolhouse, and then from the houses of Congress."
Not sure what 'houses of Congress' means, and I don't think religion should be barred from school, but I also think that religious beliefs should not play a part in legal proceedings. Religion is something that differs from person to person, and I think it would be wrong to use power to force those beliefs onto someone else.
"I would convince the young that marriage is old fashioned, that swinging is more fun, that what you see on TV is the way to be."
To some people, myself included, committing to a relationship like marriage is a frightening idea. I certainly don't want to be stuck in a relationship that would suck the enjoyment out of life. Perhaps I'll change my mind when I'm older, but for now I'm liking the idea of being completely independent and free. And for the last part, I think a big problem today is that we teach people to be part of a collective hive mind, rather than be rational individuals.
For example, last term I was part of a school unit of work examining how teenagers are represented in the media. At one point, we were examining reality TV and whether it was real or fake, and I pointed out to the teacher that this didn't seem relevant to the topic of the unit. She replied, in a slightly irritated voice, "I still asked you to do the work."
This is a mentality that I cannot stand. What it says to me is that it doesn't matter if you're right or wrong ,as long as you're in a position of power and that you shouldn't be questioned. Instead of focusing on the media (which is too broad of a term in my opinion. I think we should hold journalism and entertainment up to different standards), I think we should focus on teaching teenagers to recognize when an authority figure has made a bad decision.
I'll never understand how some people believe that secularism is a bad thing. You can't force your own beliefs on anyone.
I think it's fine for religion to be a part of school, as long as the school isn't trying to push a specific religion and gives students options.
Students should learn religion's impact on history and society. It should be taught as something with educational purposes only. The only problem I have with it is that few teachers would be qualified to teach it ''right''.