Would the Russian Orthodox be right to canonize Dostoevsky?

[Anonymous No.11123714]

They have considered it in the past and are giving it new attention in preparation for the 100th anniversary of his birth in 2021. Basically they want to make him a Russian Orthodox saint for his contributions to Russian Orthodox philosophy and literature via Crime & Punishment and Brothers K. In addition, they believe he predicted certain details of the Russian Revolution in Demons and was therefore divinely inspired.

[Anonymous No.11123732]

>>11123714
Ugh that's all his reputation needs.

[Anonymous No.11123737]

That would be really neat. I'd love to see that happen.

[Anonymous No.11123765]

>>11123714
why should anyone care what the russian orthodox church does?

[Anonymous No.11123769]

>>11123765
It would be pretty fucking strange for a 19th century author to become a fucking saint, man.

[Anonymous No.11123775]

>>11123714
[Nabokov's scowling intensifies]

[Anonymous No.11123782]

>>11123714
how would they turn a dead guy into a canon?

[Anonymous No.11123785]

>>11123782
very carefully.

[Anonymous No.11123813]

>>11123714
I don't know how the EOC does it, but even though Dostoevsky comes to the conclusion that Orthodoxy is the best he also floats around a lot of existentialist ideas that might be contrary to Traditional Christian teaching. Still, it would be interesting if it actually happened.

[Anonymous No.11123889]

>>11123769
Not at all, they did it for the worst Emperor Nicholas II.

[Anonymous No.11123926]

>>11123889
No they didn't.

[Anonymous No.11124002]

>>11123926
Didn't they?

[Anonymous No.11124044]

COMMIES BTFO

[Anonymous No.11124193]

>>11123714
>100th anniversary of his birth in 2021
>1821 was 100 years ago

[Anonymous No.11124248]

>>11123926
not only did they make him a saint, wacky orthodox fundies sent death threads to the cast and crew of a biopic of him recently because it showed him having sex and it's apparently blasphemous to show a saint mid-coitus

[Anonymous No.11125064]

>>11123926
He and his family are now all Saints in the Russian Orthodox Church. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonization_of_the_Romanovs

[Anonymous No.11125083]

>>11124248
Interesting
Are orthodox fundies in Russia as crazy as evangelical fundies in the US or wahabbists in Saudi Arabia? I feel like I never hear about them

[Anonymous No.11125132]

>>11125083
I know a Russian guy who lives in the UK who told me that the Russian Orthodox Church is corrupt as fuck. They make the congregation pay extortionate amount of donation money and tell them it's a sin if they don't pay.


Obviously, religious zealotry is sorta new to Russia given that the Orthodox Church was heavily discouraged under the Soviet Union and atheism was taught in schools. A lot of Russians see the Orthodox Church as part of their national cultural rebirth but most of them are not really familiar with the Bible or anything like that. In drug addicted Siberia there are tonnes of weird semi-Christian cults.

The official Russian Orthodox Church is VERY connected and supportive of Putin and United Russia party.


However, very few people actually go to Church every Sunday like they do on every Sunday like a lot of Protestant Evangelical Republicans do in the USA.

[Anonymous No.11126150]

>>11123714
Was dosto even interested in love and relationships.
Was he our guy?

[Anonymous No.11126481]

>>11126150
He was married and a serial adulterer, so yes. His work doesn't feature romance very prominently, however.

[Anonymous No.11126484]

>>11123714
See in the Catholic Church we canonize people because they actually perform miracles after death, not because they wrote book. Not to shit on Dostoevsky, and to be fair we didn't start doing that until Trent, but I hope you guys have a more rigorous discernment process than that.

[Anonymous No.11126494]

>>11126484
>they actually perform miracles after death
I thought one of the Catholic requirements was a miracle during their life?

[Anonymous No.11126503]

>>11126494
nope, although that certainly helps

[Anonymous No.11127668]

>>11123714
I imagine he would have to spend some time in purgatory for his attachment to lust and greed. If I recall correctly, a soul has to be exceptionally holy to go directly to heaven rather than await Judgement Day as most of us will, even among those of us who will go directly to heaven after our judgement. I definitely don't think Dostoevsky was that holy of a man to go directly to heaven. Also, if I recall correctly, he wasn't completely convinced about the literal truth of Christianity e.g. there being an afterlife.

Anyway the Russian Orthodox Church is so corrupt that I imagine they could make just about anyone they please a saint.