Take a look at the picture above. Can anyone guess what those books are? They’re my diaries; or journals if you prefer. I make an entry every single day and have been doing so for the last ten years. I could tell you where I was and what I was doing on June 15, 2014, December 5, 2011, or April 24, 2018. Name the day and I’ll tell you where I was, what I did, who I saw and how the day went.
I care about history. I love studying history and that includes my own. My family has a long track record of doing history. My father does research on our family and has traced them back to the 1700’s when they left Germany to live in a settlement along the Volga River. My grandmother’s cousin is a historian as well. He wrote a book about an ancestor of mine who was a sailor in the Russian Navy and fought against the Empire of Japan in the 1905 Russo-Japanese war. The book is Friedrich the Blacksmith: From the Promised Land of Catherine the Great to the Gulags of Comrade Stalin. It can be purchased on Amazon. History is important to my family. That’s why I’m really bothered by Islamic claims since they fly in the face of history, common sense and all the evidence. Because of historical facts, we know that Islam is a false religion that no one should be following.
One of the reasons why I keep the diary is that if someone wants to do family research in the future, they’ll have information about my life on a day to day basis. I also partially got this routine from my maternal grandmother. She turns 93 in a few days and has been keeping a diary for over 50 years.
Another reason why I keep a diary is that in case anyone lies about me, I can vindicate myself. A diary is worth gold in a court of law. We all know what we did today. We all know what we did yesterday. Do we know what we did two days ago? What about three days ago? You’d have to think pretty hard. What about 47 days ago? You have no idea, unless you keep a diary.
I won’t go through all of the details here as a google search easily brings them up. I’m of course referring to the show trial of Cardinal Pell. He just lost his appeal in a split decision in the Australian courts. The “evidence” was the somewhat contradictory and uncorroborated testimony of one person twenty years after the supposed events. A judge put a gag order on the case so not all of the information has been released, however based on what we know, it’s obvious that it was a joke. Every honest person knows this.
Even the extremely anti-Catholic Protestant apologist Steve Hays of Triablogue knows that it’s a farce. On his website he writes:
Despite my unyielding opposition to Roman Catholicism, we must never let that blind us to uniform standards of justice and evidence. We should judge allegations on a case-by-case basis. It’s wrong to convict an innocent man to set an example. Admittedly, he’s complicit in the indirect sense that he works for a corrupt organization, but that’s a different charge.
Steve knows the obvious truth of Pell’s innocence. His last sentence was meant to be a shot at the Catholic Church but he’s right, the Catholic Church is a corrupt organization. The ironic thing is that Cardinal Pell was involved in cleaning up a lot of the corruption. He was in the middle of investigating the Vatican Bank and finding some shocking things. Did some people with a lot of influence orchestrate this to stifle the findings of Pell? We can only speculate at this point.
Why did Justices Anne Ferguson and Chris Maxwell reject the appeal making the vote 2-1? These are educated people so why would they do such a thing? I think that its out of a weird sense of justice. Not justice for the specific victim, but justice for all victims of homosexual rape by priests. Pell was one of the highest prelates in the Catholic Church and this trial had a global stage. If Pell was found innocent it sets a global precedent that a lot of these claims against the Catholic Church are fake and are nothing but lies. This would have given the upper hand to the Church; Ferguson and Maxwell must have known that. They also know that there are real victims of homosexual predator priests and they probably thought locking away a Cardinal would be some indirect justice for them. Cardinal Pell was just a piece on their sick chessboard of false justice.
If the Australian government knows what is good for them, they should have these disgraced judges removed and look at seriously reforming the legal system. As for the Cardinal, he probably wishes that he had kept a diary to protect himself from these lies.
Of course the judges heard a lot of evidence that you and i are not privvy to
Based on the info I have I’m thoroughly convinced of his innocence. If other info comes out to the contrary, I’ll take it into account in my judgement. It’s a bit disappointing that Ted McCarrick is free while Pell is in jail. I believe there are reasons for that but I won’t get into them here.
Speaking of ‘If the glove doesn’t fit, you must acquit’ and justice denied, I lean toward the theory that it didn’t fit OJ Simpson’s hand because it was his SON who wore the glove.
https://blacksportsonline.com/2016/04/5-reasons-why-its-likely-ojs-son-jason-killed-nicole-ron-goldman/
I’ve heard that theory before as well. I’d have to investigate it more though.
what sort of trial was it was it in open court where all the evidence was open to the public? What about the appeal was that the same? I ask this as a genuine question as i dont know the answer. As for Mc Carrick i suspect he had the dirt on a lot of powerful people and was allowed to go off to a short retirement in dementia. Perhaps if Mr Pell had done the same he would also not be where he is today. That said that does not mean he is necessarily a paragon of virtue it just means he may have been a bit naive
–History is important to my family. That’s why I’m really bothered by Islamic claims since they fly in the face of history, common sense and all the evidence. Because of historical facts, we know that Islam is a false religion that no one should be following.–
And inversely, history is a strong point for the Bible.
I recently did a presentation on the archaeological finds that corroborate the Bible. A repeated theme I emphasize is how often secularists claim that such-and-such event, place or person in the Bible never existed, only to be refuted by archaeological discoveries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKqP4RVyoBE&t=135s
With 100+ examples squeezed into 106 minutes, it turned out a bit rushed – for a revised presentation I’d cut out the less impactful examples (e.g. the latter stelas, seal of Hezekiah, name frequency in the Gospels) and stick to the ‘big Sunday School names’ like Joseph, Moses, Daniel and Jesus.
Interesting, I’ve listened to about half of it. I’ll certainly listen to the rest later. Good stuff!
Thanks Allan!
Do be honest about which parts were boring or unimpactful, draggy, or too brief/rushed.
I intend to revise the presentation before my next attempt based on feedback like that.
Peter Saunders did not think much of mr Pell and I think that Mr Saunders had good credibility it did not hurt that he was a fellow brit too.
Pell is Australian.
yes i know i was being flippant because i am a brit and i meant saunders was a fellow brit to me. That aside he was not a big fan of Pell he felt that Pell was almost sociopathic towards victims of clergy sex abuse. The first good sign of a psychopath is that they are callous and unemotional and i think that describes mr pell quite well .
Ah okay, my mistake.