HAPPY HOLY DAYS!

“Happy Holy Days,

Happy Holy Days…

While the merry bells keep ringing,

Happy Holy Days to you!”**

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So much of the language we’re seeing

Is stripped of original meaning…

Holiday once was holy,

A festive day solely

To celebrate spiritual cleaning.

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In “X-mas” the X stood for Christ,

The tipped-over cross sufficed…

But in algebra, “x”

Stands for unknown, one suspects

Non-Christians got this in-spliced.

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Western and American thought

By intellectuals is thought to be fraught…

With danger to social control,

In other places it is so

That any and all Christianity must be tossed.

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True pity I really feel

For folks who reduce to “corn meal…”

Cultural richness displayed

Despite efforts made,

By fanatical pagan zeal.

–Jonathan Caswell

**NOTE: A play on the words of Bing Crosby’s hit song, “Happy Holidays”, based on the etiology (history of words and their usage), of “holiday” coming from the original term, “holy day”.