Christ not only suffers with us, but for us. His death is not only exemplary, but expiatory and substitutionary. He does not simply share human suffering: he redeems it.

Camus might say "he touches glory," but without faith in Christ's divinity and resurrection, his analysis remains incomplete. Christian consolation lies not only in a God who suffers, but in a God who conquers, conquers death and sin, as Paul says, he conquered his enemies and publicly exposed them.