One thing you may have missed is the fact that the famous Grand Inquisitor scene is in effect a violent anti-Catholic polemic in which Dostoyevsky the Orthodox in effect picks up and runs with common Protestant talking points.
Yes, I got that. But Dostoyevsky put that anti-Catholic polemic in the mouth of his "atheist" character, who is clearly shown to be tormented and doubtful and so basically making up anti-religious screeds because he's afraid of the Devil. And Alyosha, the religious brother, pretty much tells Ivan that his story is nonsense.
(Elsewhere in the book, Dostoyevsky does say other mildly disparaging things about Catholics, but he distinguishes between, for example, Jesuits and Dominicans, so he's certainly got a more nuanced view than his character Ivan does.)
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Yes, I got that. But Dostoyevsky put that anti-Catholic polemic in the mouth of his "atheist" character, who is clearly shown to be tormented and doubtful and so basically making up anti-religious screeds because he's afraid of the Devil. And Alyosha, the religious brother, pretty much tells Ivan that his story is nonsense.
(Elsewhere in the book, Dostoyevsky does say other mildly disparaging things about Catholics, but he distinguishes between, for example, Jesuits and Dominicans, so he's certainly got a more nuanced view than his character Ivan does.)