It sounds to me like he was a disgruntled Calvinist who didn\'t know where to turn except to agnosticism. He was sort of right about one thing though, the message of grief. Yes, the angels proclaimed the glad tidings and it was of course cause for rejoicing, but...Christ was wrapped in swaddling clothes, right? Well, look at an Orthodox icon of the Nativity. Those \"swaddling clothes\" are shown as burial wrappings on the baby Jesus, in anticipation of his Death and Burial and Resurrection. But even if the wrappings are a showing of why He came to earth and His death, they too are also a cause for joy--the joy of Pascha.
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