TASP 2003 at UT Austin:
The Mystery of Creativity |
Friday, January 07, 2005
This turns my mind to chapters 35 and 36 of Brothers Karamazov.
Chapter 35 is a collection of true stories Dostoevsky collected from news reports of children's sufferings, including a serf boy being ran to earth by a nobleman and his hounds. Also a story of a young girl tortured horiffically by her parents ( only a syllogism away from humans and their heavenly father).
Chapter 36, "The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor", is precisely such an interrogation of God (here, Jesus) by man. These chapters, written by the Orthodox Dostoevsky contain probably the most powerful atheistic "diabolodicies" ever written and, perhaps, the seed of their answer. Well worth your time.
http://www.online-literature.com/dostoevsky/brothers_karamazov/
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