Thursday, October 26, 2006
ANOTHER FIND IN THE FILES - MALACHI MARTIN
My printout of the interview of Malachi Martin is dated 2/28/03. Old news. Nevertheless, in re-reading it, it seemed worthy of blogging. The interview is titled "Malachi Martin on The End of Religion (As We Know It)". It's said to be one of the last interviews before Martin's death in 1999. In it he talks about Satanism in the Vatican and the future of planet earth. It's not a very bright future by any means. It strikes me, though, that he didn't forsee the developing interest in religion. Martin thought the future was secular. Granted this developing interest may not serve Christianity well, but it is still opposite to the claims of Martin in this interview.
What should be the final conclusion on Malachi Martin? Some reject everything he wrote because of the scandal over Robert Blair Kaiser's wife. Is Kaiser's the final declaration on Martin's life? Or does it make more sense to recognize that, even if true, he was human and thus sinful; but his sinfulness should not erase any good he may have done?
Others, such as William H. Kennedy believe he was falsely accused. I guess we'll never know for sure, but it certainly places a black cloud over Martin's books.
