I hate to see Christmas being replaced with Xmas! It kills me that people are taking Christ, the reason for the season, out of such an important day/time of the year! Any thoughts?
2006-09-01 09:00:07 · 36 answers · asked by swrong 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
I really agree with you.
Christmas is Jesus birthday!
When I see "Xmas" I feel it does not honor Him - it 's reduced to a "pagan" day with no meaning.
Jesus is the reason for the Season - if people don't agree, they just shouldn't celebrate the day. They should create their own "holiday".
2006-09-01 14:41:12 · answer #1 · answered by Kare♥Bear 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Okay people first of all.....
The X in xmas actually is ancient Greek. The X being the symbol for Cristo "Christ" So saying Xmas is not taking Christ out of Christmas. It's the same.
Secondly.....
There is no proof that Dec. 25th is Christ's birthday unless you're reading the KJ version of the bible. HELLO, King James had the bible rewritten to depict what he thought it should be.......
The 'reason for the season' is Yule, Winter Soltice. It was surplanted by the Christian holiday to convert non believers.
2006-09-01 09:11:46 · answer #2 · answered by PaganPoetess 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I really don't let it bother me, because I know that the X in xmas is the Greek symbol for Christ. I used to be Lutheran, and they have a symbol which has a P, and an X crossing each other forming what is called a chixro (spelling may be wrong)
2006-09-01 18:02:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You're wrong to think Xmas is an attempt to disparage Christmas or "ex-out" Christ.
The word "Christ" and its compounds, including "Christmas", have been abbreviated for at least the past 1,000 years, long before the modern "Xmas" was commonly used. "Christ" was often written as "XP" or "Xt"; there are references in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as far back as 1021 AD. This X and P arose as the uppercase forms of the Greek letters χ and ρ), used in ancient abbreviations for Χριστος (Greek for "Christ"), and are still widely seen in many Eastern Orthodox icons depicting Jesus.
It's a little early yet to start getting silly again about the mythical "War on Christmas," isn't it?
If I know someone is a Christian, I wish them a Merry Christmas.
If I know they are a Jew, I say "Happy Hannukah."
If I know them to be a Humanist, I say, "Happy Human Light."
If I don't know what religion or personal philosophy to which they belong, it makes sense to say "Happy Holidays." It isn't a disparagement of anyone.
2006-09-01 09:13:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Interesting. 75 yrs on earth and I still do not truly understand the "X-mas" being used. When I was a wee child in a time where lst, 2nd, 3rd graders were mostly concerned with being children while learning and playing, I remember the first time I saw "X-mas.'' My Dad saw me copying it from a greeting card (cards were big in those days and treasured every bit as gifts). This farm boy turned coal miner self educated man looked at me and said, "No." "Christmas." "X" can never replace "Christ." I do not remember what he said about "mas" but I am certain it was related to the celebration of Christ. We were Methodists so I am sure he did not say "mass." He said to the child, moi', that this day was set in place to celebrate Jesus' birth on earth. Gift giving (spare in that time period in that rural area) was a way of celebrating gifts given to The Holy Family and The Gift given to us on earth from Abba.
These many years later, and I still refuse to us "X" except in mathematical equations or situations. For this family, Christ is not an unknown.
Thanks for letting me share and blessed Christmas to all.
2014-12-24 04:45:53 · answer #5 · answered by geoplanner 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nobody can take Christ out of Christmas for me! Just like any other symbol, slur, attempt to deface Christ's being here, I know in my mind, heart and soul that he is my Lord and Savior. No X or x is going to change that ever!!!
2006-09-02 05:35:35 · answer #6 · answered by Melody 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I like Christmas better but not because it has anything to do with Christ. I have just grown up with that and saying X-Mas sounds weird. I only use that when I want to write short-form. But I guess it is also politically correct too. But nowadays at school they just call it like Happy Holidays or Holiday Concert
2006-09-01 13:10:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
get over it, christ is not the reason for the season, it is originally a pagan holiday as is easter and when christianity took over and eliminated and assimilated other religions ,the holidays were the one thing people could not give up and this helped keep heresy alive , whoever the powers that be were at the time incorporated these holidays into the jesus myth and everyone was a happy worshipper, and this is a silly thing it is a x,the way someone writes out a word, is less siginificant than the commercialization of the holiday which you as a traditional american participate in with consuming and buying and wrapping those presents which do absolutely nothing to honor jesus and everything to honor capitalism and the power of money, which is supposedly the root of all evil
2006-09-01 09:07:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 4⤋
xmas it is or christmas is only commercial excuse to by presents but also is reminder to be reborn iin the christ i'm rebirthing in christ every second of my life so i don't needed christmas
2006-09-02 01:41:04 · answer #9 · answered by george p 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
X-mas may be short for Christmas (because people are too lazy these days to write it all out) X-mas to me is the sign of a "broken cross"
2006-09-02 04:17:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋