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A review by mangocats
The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoevsky
5.0
brilliant brilliant brilliant!!!!
“We have completed that work in Thy name…people are more persuaded than ever that they have perfect freedom, yet they have brought their freedom to us and laid it humbly at our feet”
“Do you really think that the Roman Catholic movement of the last centuries is actually nothing but the lust of power, of filthy earthly gain?”
a beautifully ironic chapter.
complex conversation about society’s desire for freedom and dread of suffering and the knowledge of good and evil… and how the catholic church offers the illusion of salvation and structure that people long for…
“We have completed that work in Thy name…people are more persuaded than ever that they have perfect freedom, yet they have brought their freedom to us and laid it humbly at our feet”
“Do you really think that the Roman Catholic movement of the last centuries is actually nothing but the lust of power, of filthy earthly gain?”
a beautifully ironic chapter.
complex conversation about society’s desire for freedom and dread of suffering and the knowledge of good and evil… and how the catholic church offers the illusion of salvation and structure that people long for…