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Dostoevsky figure who argues that the church must oppose Jesus to protect people from freedom.
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Grand Inquisitor
Dostoevsky figure who argues that the church must oppose Jesus to protect people from freedom.
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Glossary
Dostoevsky figure who argues that weak humanity needs oppressive authority because free love and free choice are too hard.
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The Catholic Church is framed through Dostoevsky as an institution that pretends to worship Jesus while actually worshiping Satan by enforcing order for people who want to be sheep.
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The Grand Inquisitor knows the prisoner is Jesus but says the church must destroy him because his presence ruins the order that makes people happy.
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The Grand Inquisitor argues that people do not want free will and that an oppressive church empire liberates weak people from the burden of free choice.
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"...threat to the happiness of the people okay and what the grand inquisitor will say to jesus is we create good in this world..."
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"is okay thou didst not love them at all thou who didst come to give thy life for them instead of taking possession of..."
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"people to tell them that the more not exist that there's a spark inside them that they don't have to be slaves they can..."
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"going thou did desire man's free love that he should follow thee freely enticed and taken captive by thee in place of the rigid..."
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"is okay sorry this is like really a very annoying thing for people because before your teacher will tell you what is good and..."
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"at last reject even thy image and thy truth, if he is weighed down with a fearful burden of free choice. They will cry..."
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"Okay, right? You're creating all this anxiety in people for no particular reason. People were happy just being slaves, and now you free them,..."
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"will love this idea but what about the millions of other people who just want to like live normal lives what can we do..."
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"them that jesus did actually say these things and we're going to not we will we will not worship jesus we worship satan instead..."
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"catholic church will pretend to worship jesus but actually we're going to worship satan and so we're going to enforce the law on people..."
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"...worships satan they need to arrest this guy okay and the grand inquisitor the leader appears before jesus they have a conversation that jesus..."
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"...Who. Is. Jesus. They. Worship. Him. Then. He's. Dragged. Before. The. Grand. Inquisitor. He. Becomes. A. Prisoner. To. The. Grand. Inquisitor. At. This. Point...."
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