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This week I have an exclusive video for you about the cult of Pythagoras. Along the way, we will explore the philosophy of numbers and maths.
In this week’s article, we look at one of Dostoyevsky’s most devastatingly beautiful chapters where he rages against God.
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Jonny
We should be furious at God. If there’s an all-powerful being who designed a world of such depraved cruelty and evil, then he’s worthy only of scorn and certainly not worship. He first created incredible suffering, then to "help,” he gave us prophets with enigmatic platitudes, an incoherent babble of holy texts, and, worst of all, he sent his son to “fix” the situation, but who changed nothing at all.
This is the charge Dostoyevsky raises in his famous “Grand Inquisitor” passage.
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