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<div>"The degree of civilization in a society is revealed by entering its prisons."</div>
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<div>--Feodor Dostoyevsky</div>
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<div>Dostoevsky can be read as a religious philosopher, a political commentator, a psychologist, and/or a novelist. His writing deals with the central contradictions in our lives: good and evil, God and atheism, freedom and tyranny, the fall of humanity vs. the belief in progress, revolution and utopia. Dostoevsky's religion has been described as "a personal version of extreme mystical Christianity." Humanity, while fallen, is free to choose between good and evil, but choosing Christ means taking on oneself the burden of humanity in love and pity, since "everybody is guilty for all and before all." Dostoevsky stresses
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">personal</i> freedom of choice and an affirmation of the worth of every individual with an equal emphasis, paradoxically, on the individual identity of all human beings, their equality before God, and the bond of love that unites them.
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<div><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</span></div>