Pope Francis Protested from the novel of the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky “Brothers Karamazov” during a meeting with representatives of the local Ecumenical Council during a visit to Slovakia. This is reported by TASS.
He remembered the parable of the “Great Inquisitor”, which the writer included in the second part of the novel.
Pope noted that the community experienced the years of the “persecution of atheists” when religious freedom was in the face of a serious test. According to him, the temptation return to dependence still remains, but not from the regime, “but to the worst type of slavery.”
“And this is what Dostoevsky warns in the famous” Legend of the Great Inquisitor “… People are ready to give up freedom for the sake of more convenient slavery so that someone will solve them, gave food and security,” he said .
Earlier, Pope Francis commented on the situation in Afghanistan with the words of Russian President Vladimir Putin, but he was attributed to the authorship of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. He spoke about the Afghan crisis, referring to statements made during Putin’s talks and Merkel in Moscow. “It is necessary to stop the irresponsible policy of interference from the outside, the desire to build democracy in other countries, without taking into account the traditions of peoples,” he said.