In the face of evil within our own genetic code, what relevance is a baby in a manger born more than 20 centuries ago?
Why would an oncologist care about the biblical Christmas story?
Having spent those first months learning the wonder of the body working aright, we spent the next months learning all the ways things could go wrong. Cancer cells devastate my patients every day: infiltrating lung, liver and brain; filling the belly with unending fluid; trapping the lungs inside growing pools; strangling the bowels; disordering the brain; robbing mobility and even the ability to talk; decimating family; widowing young mothers; attacking the young and the old, the vigorous and the ill.
But that is the special calling of religion and the unique province of belief — to stare into the yawning chasm of despair and absurdity and nonetheless proclaimTo see in that manger salvation come down from heaven, to believe that an impoverished refugee would transcend sin and death to transform women and men and eventually bring justice and peace to Earth is the height of folly — unless it is true.
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