Is his view of religion philosophically lazy?
He states that because religion is the human expression of moral values that it is therefore necessary for a moral society. Yet if it was truly the human expression of morality then the morals would already be naturally ingrained into society making religion useless.
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Isn't that a chicken-egg issue? If its naturally ingrained wouldn't that make us likely to create religion? So the human expression of morality being naturally ingrained is why we invented religion, so Dostoevsky is not incorrect. Religion is not artificial, its fundamental part of our minds and part of our evolution. Humanity can't really be meaningfully separated from civilization, we're basically a different species now than we were 10,000 years ago.