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A review by chrisrohlev1234
The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoevsky
5.0
Extremely unfair of me to add this 32 page book to my read category when the real ones are out here reading Cloud Cuckoo Land and whatnot. But I'm really far behind on my year in books, so from this point on I'm just going to read short novellas and picture books. This way I can feel really good about myself on New Year's and can brag to all my friend(s) about how smart I am.
Sarcasm aside, I listened to a YouTube video recently about the Brothers K and thought I'd give this chapter another read since it's been a couple years. I would say this is the most dense, spiritual and devastating chapter in all of literature. I really recommend anyone to read this short story when they have just an hour to themselves. You can draw so much from it about human psychology and rationality. I will summarize it by saying it makes both the best and worst case for religion. It's pretty disturbing but very interesting and in the end, very happy. Happy isn't the right word but something like that.
Here is my question. From what I've read, Dostoevsky seems like one of the most insightful humans to exist. He, in my opinion, understood atheism better than most do today. I think what tormented him was his search for truth in the world. He can be thought of in the same category as Einstein or Hawking in his search for the objective truth in this world. One of his last quotes before dying was
"Even if someone were to prove to me that the truth lay outside Christ, I should choose to remain with Christ rather than with the truth."
I can't figure out what he meant by this.
Sarcasm aside, I listened to a YouTube video recently about the Brothers K and thought I'd give this chapter another read since it's been a couple years. I would say this is the most dense, spiritual and devastating chapter in all of literature. I really recommend anyone to read this short story when they have just an hour to themselves. You can draw so much from it about human psychology and rationality. I will summarize it by saying it makes both the best and worst case for religion. It's pretty disturbing but very interesting and in the end, very happy. Happy isn't the right word but something like that.
Here is my question. From what I've read, Dostoevsky seems like one of the most insightful humans to exist. He, in my opinion, understood atheism better than most do today. I think what tormented him was his search for truth in the world. He can be thought of in the same category as Einstein or Hawking in his search for the objective truth in this world. One of his last quotes before dying was
"Even if someone were to prove to me that the truth lay outside Christ, I should choose to remain with Christ rather than with the truth."
I can't figure out what he meant by this.