Chirstmas is the celebration of the birth of Christ, why would you put an x there instead of the reason you are celebrating?
2006-12-02 09:55:52 · 24 answers · asked by Cassandra H 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
While Christmas was traditionally the celebration of the birth of Christ, it has been popularized by the media and is no longer celebrated solely by Christians. Non-Christians celebrate Christmas for the gift-giving and the family togetherness, not the celebration of the birth of Christ and most of them don't realize it has it's own long history. They don't see a problem with shortening it to X-mas because they aren't celebrating the birth of Christ.
2006-12-02 18:00:46 · answer #1 · answered by kittysloveme 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think it should be called Christmas, with a capital C. May be I'm a bit old fashioned, I know, but really Christmas is, as you said, about the birth of Christ and a spiritual celebration, thats not about us, but about Christ. Unfortunately, we tend to oversee this nowadays and the whole celebration has become so commercialised. Sad really.
Merry Christmas everyone! ;-) Have a peaceful time! Gini
2006-12-02 18:03:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's not just a modern fad, It comes from the early greek usage when Christians were persecuted and they had to hide. The X is actually the greek letter Chi, and it was used with the letter Rho the first two leter of the name Christ. (looks like: XP). The greek spelling is ΧÏιÏÏοÏ
So it's got a long tradition... but I agree with you that today, it's a lot better to use the full word Christmas.
But so that you know it's not an anti-Christian thing.
2006-12-02 18:03:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Today a lot of people don't want to accept Christ. Even our government is letting organizations bully them into even considering taking Gods' name off of money. You should always put "Christ" in "Christmas" because as you said, it is a celebration of his birthday. After all, he died for all of us and deserves recognition. Hopefully people will start accepting him instead of trying to "X" him out of their lives! Merry Christmas!
2006-12-02 18:03:59 · answer #4 · answered by crazyfazy_7 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Originally the X is X-mas was there to symbolize the cross Jesus was crucified on. Not sure when it became disassociated with the religious significance. Probably somewhere between the Coca-Cola creation of the modern Santa Claus and first pre-Thanksgiving Christmas sale.
2006-12-02 17:58:11 · answer #5 · answered by QuickQuestion 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's Christmas! I completely agree with you. It's a statement about our culture that people cannot even put "Christ" in a holiday name.
2006-12-02 18:03:55 · answer #6 · answered by Happy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's more of a cultural festival nowadays, which h non Christians participate in, in is note reserved for Christians and nonbelievers like it as the holiday season, therefore Xmas and Christmas are interchangeable have have the same meaning
2006-12-02 17:58:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's an attemp to take Christ out of Christmas.
2006-12-02 17:58:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Why would you call it Christmas when the holiday was intended to replace the Winter Solstice (Decembe 21) celebration?
2006-12-02 17:59:13 · answer #9 · answered by Shaggy 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋