killer, faith in God is the only path to sanity. Dostoevsky was a young man when he heard these stories. How could he live otherwise, if he really actively loved people, but take the belief in God as a necessity? The belief that the idea of God should be there because otherwise everything would be allowed is Ivan's perspective. His claim that society should be based on the Christian dogma, and that crime should not be only against the state, but also against Christ, is exactly the opposite of what to believe and to really love Christ means. Christ did not set out to punish the transgressors, but he gave them all the love that he could give: forgiveness and love: Remember particularly that you cannot be a judge of anyone. For no one can judge a criminal, until he recognizes that he is just such a criminal as the man standing before him, and that he perhaps is morethan all man to blame for that crime. (Brothers Karamazov. VI, 3) For Ivan, eternal justice does not exist, and he also does not believe that there are guilty. But after that he accuses people of being evil and he does not forgive them. So he needs a lie to cover the fact of the human mortality. The only problem is that God is not a lie, at least not for Dostoevsky. Ivan would establish the rule of the Inquisitor: he would establish a system that uses Christ for its own survival. To actively love means to believe and not to calculate or believe only nine hours a day or when it is helpful to one's survival Through the act of rebellion against the social norms and the Christian dogma secular liberals, or humanists, forget about fellow human beings as being fallible as much in thought as in action. In those moments, great defenders of liberal thought and love for humanity forget that they might not have the definite answer, thus they fall into the same trap as their predecessors who thought that they knew what is the best for people and enforced their id...
