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[quote=Anonymous]Where does the notion that it's sad and tragic that a child has cancer come from?  That is, if we assume a world where things came into being by chance, why should we be bothered that a child has a chance of having cancer? Shouldn't there be a certain degree of acceptance or resignation that that is simply the world that we live in?

Now, we insert God into the picture and it makes more sense that it's sad and tragic that a child has cancer because the underlying assumption is that God is good and a good God should not want pediatric cancer.  I don't think you will ever get a good answer as to why God allows for something like pediatric cancer.  Religious folks often give some argument about free will and how God has to give people some level of agency for life to be meaningful.  I have never found such arguments particularly helpful on a human level, nor convincing on a logical level.  I do think the Christian Bible has incidents where Jesus interacts with disabled people (e.g., blind, paralytic, etc.), but Jesus never really addresses the question in those contexts, where you would think people in those times would have the same question.  He does seem to imply that the disability is not the result of sin in one instance, but he simply does not engage with the question. Instead, we see a sad and sympathetic Jesus who proceeds to heal people.  I actually think the honest answer here is that no one knows.  Maybe that makes God/Jesus seem weaker/not necessarily omnipotent, so people don't like that.  The only thing that I am able to glean is that Jesus does seem to care and seems to be upset about the disability in the same way as you or I. [/quote]

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