John says, ''The Word (the eternal Logos, the Christ) became flesh and dwelt among us." Flesh. Meat. Incarnation, which me.ans ''in the flesh," ''in the body." That's Christmas, ''The Feast of the Incarnation." Our God didn't stay up on Cloud Nine, aloof, unscathed by what troubles us in this world. In the flesh.

Sometimes well meaning folk say, ''After all, when you get down to it, all religions are fairly much the same. Right?''

Wrong. When you get down to it, and today, on the Eve of the Feast of the Inca t nation, we are getting right down to it, what Christians are believing sets us totally at odds with any religion I know anything about. We're weird, different, peculiar. We believe, or we are here attempting to believe, that ''The Word became flesh and dwelt among us."

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