In Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Grand Inquisitor, we see that the Inquisitor is an atheist who prosecutes Christ. He tells Christ he has prevented human beings from being able to achieve redemption because he has given them the option of choice. This is a freedom that most human beings cannot handle, according to the Inquisitor, so they are doomed to sin and suffer. The
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