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2006-11-05 23:13:05 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
It is because the firt letter for Christ in greek is Chi and is identical to our X. It has nothing to do with getting rid of Christ. The Church adopted it as it saved space on tables and charts.
2006-11-05 23:33:48 · update #1
I think that the X can take the place of Christ in the word as it resembles a symbol used for Christ which is a P with a sort of lower case x through the bottom of the P.
2006-11-05 23:26:58 · answer #1 · answered by bandit 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is for criss cross mas.
Don't do it.
Christ is was Christmas is all about. It is correct to captitalize Christ, God, Jesus .....not cross that part of the word out. I did it in the past too, like an abreviation, until it was brought to my attention that I was essentially crossing Christ out. It won't happen again for me. It doesn't take much effort to write in the entire word, the abbreviation is an unnecessary and disrespectful one Many people don't realize and so don't think bad of them, but you can point it out so they will include Christ in Christmas.
2006-11-06 08:14:58 · answer #2 · answered by Deb 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was reading a letter the other day from the 19th Century and the guy wrote Xmas instead of Christmas, so I don't think it has much to do with modern political correctness, probably more to do with laziness.
2006-11-06 07:26:11 · answer #3 · answered by Hendo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not Christ's Birth so why does it matter how we spell it? Christmas is a Pagan Holiday that was started by the Roman Catholic Church and a Born Again Christian shouldn't celebrate any pagan holidays.
2006-11-06 10:38:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it's a way to attempt to remove Christ, the reason for the season, from Christmas.
It's the same as stores in their greed have in the past few years started making their employees say, "Happy Holidays", instead of "Merry Christmas".
2006-11-06 07:22:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To whomever commented on the term Happy holidays I believe this phrase is used so that it doesn't exclude other religions such as Judaism. Jews celebrate at this time too.
As for Xmas... don't read to much into it it's just because people are to lazy to write Christmas
2006-11-06 07:49:14 · answer #6 · answered by valleylaydee85 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just a short form for Christ.
2006-11-06 08:56:26 · answer #7 · answered by Lydia 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Xmas is a handy abbreviation for Christmas. If you have a sign in a shop window or are writing dozens of Christmas cards, it saves you a lot of time and space writing Xmas instead of Christmas. It makes sense.
2006-11-06 07:42:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Its used to shorten but I hate it when people use it because it is disrespectful. Its like xing out Christ.
2006-11-06 07:26:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I dont because i think that it is trying to take the real meaning of Christmas away
2006-11-06 20:48:35 · answer #10 · answered by whitchelle229 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋