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Theology of suffering ? Excerpts from Albert Camus " The Plague " 09:21 (2 minutes ago) “I understand,” Paneloux said in a low voice. “That sort of thing is revolting because it passes our human understanding. But perhaps we should love what we cannot understand.” Rieux straightened up slowly… “No, Father. I’ve a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture.” Rieux works to combat the plague simply because he is a doctor and his job is to relieve human suffering. He does not do it for any grand, religious purpose, like Paneloux (Rieux does not believe in God), or as part of a high-minded moral code, like Tarrou. He is a practical man, doing what needs to be done without any fuss, but he knows that the struggle against death is something that he can never win. The theology of the Catholic Church is nearly a theology of suffering . But common HUMANITY must survive with or without the HOPE of transcendent meaning . " The Absurd " in Camus' philosophical existentialism ( ? ) always leaves us alone in the universe ( of " benign indifference " ? ) without THE ANSWER . And who is right , the priest Paneloux or the good doctor non-believer Rieux ? Who knows ? [ This line, "There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning," is the concluding sentence of Thornton Wilder's novel, "The Bridge of San Luis Rey." ]