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One of the great platitudes -which are popular today when we are confronted with acts of violence- is to refer to Fyodor Dostoyevskys famous statement from The Brothers Karamazov: If there is no God then everything is permitted. Well, the first problem with this statement is that Dostoyevsky, of course, never made it. The first one who used this phrase as allegedly made by Dostoyevsky was Jean-Paul Sartre in 43, but the main point is that this statement is simply wrong. Even a brief look at our predicament today clearly tells us this. It is precisely: if there is God, that everything is permitted to those who not only believe in God but who perceive themselves as instruments, direct instruments of the divine will. If you posit or perceive or legitimise yourself as a direct instrument of the divine will, then of course all narrow petty moral considerations disappear. -The Perverts Guide to Ideology
Posted on: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 17:32:35 +0000

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