To be honest, I didn’t think this book was about religion at
all when I first read it and so it is a bit amazing how it has been the topic
of talk for three days now with more and more ideas to grasp about what
Dostoyevksy is saying every day. From what I have understood about the
discussions, Dostoyevsky is describing the problems that arise in the mind of a
conscious man because he sees both sides of the belief system; the divine and
the scientific. Dostoyevsky addresses this issue because it creates havoc in
society when an idea that has been established for centuries is put to the test
with a new idea and people are either ignorant and stubborn about opening up
their mind or they switch completely and anger the other close-minded people. I
thought Dostoyevsky very clever at this point because he found a way to play
with his words in a way that he never once mentioned the words “religion” or “evolution,
yet he talks about the topic for more than a page.
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