They
called him the Grand Inquisitor back then…and in those days, the nickname had
made him smile.
A propos The
Brothers Karamazov: Jesus Christ, returned to earth 15 hundred years after
his crucifixion, was also spoken to by a Grand Inquisitor of sorts: “Thou lookest meekly at me and deignest not even
to be wrought with me. But let me tell Thee that now, today, 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. And we, .....we have brought this on ourselves. Was this what Thou didst? Was this Thy freedom?
“And
what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist;
the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter
the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.”
― Fyodor
Dostoyevsky, The
Brothers Karamazov
Nothing
like post-holiday angst!
