More Dostoyevsky
"He was hypercritical of Western Christianity, which he said had 'distorted the image of Christ' in both Catholicism and Protestantism. A Russian nationalist, he suggested his country not look to Europe for any sort of enlightenment:
"I assert that our people became enlightened long ago, by taking into its eternal soul Christ and his teaching…".
He foresaw disaster in the West because of a failure to be faithful to Christ, and, in contrast to the deep universal brotherhood characteristic of a genuinely Russian vision, he 'concluded that the comedic multicultural identity of Europe’s bourgeoisie and intelligentsia simply could not be taken seriously as the natural or proper form of human unity'." From the Vatican website
Interesting both in light of the West (a disaster, as predicted) but also in his overconfidence w respect to Russia...
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