Ode to the Winter Solstice...by Val

Ode to the Winter Solstice

&

Season’s Greetings

by

Val the Athiest

The month of December

Is a calendaric monstrosity.

It is a time when chronology

Recapitulates ontological religiosity.

On the winter Solstice,

The Pagans have their say

And, let us be clear…

It is a dark, dark day!

In this dark month

The Eight Days of Chanukah

Are celebrated by the Jews.

Their festival of lights

Claims the victory of the Maccabees

Over those ancient Syrian fools.

On march the Christians

Claiming December 25^th as The Most Holy Day.

The Messiah has emerged from the

Virgin’s womb, they shout.

Repent and convert all you

Pagan and Jewish louts!

Luckily the New Year will soon be welcomed in.

A fresh new calendar, a fresh new vision…

Rise up secular humanists and religious moderates,

Rise up spiritual atheists and agnostics.

Let us come together

And save ourselves from dogmatic religious division!

Evolution, evolution stay the course.

Let ontogeny and phylogeny

Guide ontology.

Let a culture of awakening guide

Human consciousness into

A grand, loving and kind tour de force.