reaction to the grand inquisitor section of the brothers karamozov

The church and the grand inquisitor seem to play more of a demonic role than good Christian, in that they are trying to change God’s plan and take man’s free will away. This, though the opposite, is similar to No. 44 holding many of the qualities we typically attribute to God. The lines of good and evil seem to become more skewed as time goes on, in part because people seem to feel that God is dead/dying. It is man’s ability to hate god that allows us to turn the tables and make Satan seem more righteous than the creator. Maybe because we pity Satan, maybe because in our less repressed society we are free to speak well of the devil, maybe because humans really are on the highway to hell. I believe it is man’s learnedness that allows us to question more, going back to the old argument of where logic and reason takes us; towards or away from god. I believe it takes us away from god, or at the very least it takes us away from a monotheistic religion. Nowadays it seems like the majority is straying from Christianity to neo-paganism and atheism. Maybe its time for a change, maybe Satan needs to come out of the dark and reclaim his place as the “light-bearer.”