“They will be amazed at us,” says the Grand Inquisitor to
Jesus, “and will think of us as gods, because we, who set ourselves at their
head, are ready to endure freedom, this freedom from which they shrink in
horror; and because we are ready to rule over them – so terrible will it seem
to them, in the end, to be free. But we shall say that we are obeying you and
ruling only in your name. Again we shall be betraying them, for we shall not
let you have anything to do with us anymore.” Indeed, “Why have you come to
disturb us?” The Grand Inquisitor means to take this Jesus who has come again,
bringing freedom once again, and burn him at the stake in the name of the
church.”
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