The Role of Religion in the Experience of Illness

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Dr. Lennox: Is there evidence, any evidence anywhere in the universe that God can be trusted with a real answer to it? He says religion plays a major and important role within the experience of illness. In patients facing life-threatening cancer, 84% agreed that religion was helping them specifically cope and handle their cancer., Dr. Lennox adds.

For the religious believer and the atheist alike, the problem of evil and suffering is troubling. If there is a God, why does he allow so much evil? And if there isn’t a God, how can we say that anything is evil?

In this Forum event from 2014 at Harvard Medical School, Oxford mathematician John Lennox addresses one of the most challenging human questions: where is God in suffering?

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