I'm not sure if anyone has asked, or if Christians know the true meaning behind xmas.. but does it bother them? and if so, why?
2006-12-04 04:23:20 · 27 answers · asked by bensbabe 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
fos the person who wants me to be more specific.. does it bother you when people refer to the day denoting the celebration of the birth of christ as x-mas? If it does why does it? if it does not, why not? And if it does offend you do you know the truth behind X and why it is used?
2006-12-04 04:38:43 · update #1
X comes from the Greek letter Chi, which was the first letter in Christos. Yes it's an abbreviation, no, however, it's not about taking Christ out of Christmas.
2006-12-04 04:26:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I am a Christian and I don't appreciate it when people try to take Christ our of His birth day celebration. I don't' appreciate that this world has turned Christ's birthday, even though it is not the actual day that He was born, into a profit making commercializing day and event.
I do not put up a tree, and I don't' celebrate Christ's birth, life, crucifixion and Resurrection only one day out of an entire year. I celebrate it all year long. Jesus does not bless me one day out of the year, so I don't' put aside only one day out of the year for Him.
Jesus is there with me, and going through my life together with me all year long, Praise the Lord!!!
2006-12-04 12:31:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You know, when I was a little girl my friend told me that when you write Xmas that you are sinning against Christ because you are Xing him out of Christmas. So it was like I was trying to eliminating him from my life. What a bunch of extremist, bible thumping crap! It’s so sad that people have to take every little thing that people do and find something wrong with it. It’s just a quick way of writing it for goodness sakes.
She was a child when she said this and it sounds like something a child would say, but the sad part is that there are adults who think this way, blowing such a tiny thing out of proportion.
In ancient Greek Christ is:
ΧÏιÏÏÏÏ Î¿
(which starts with an X, that may or may not have anything to do with this)
2006-12-04 12:29:58 · answer #3 · answered by A 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I've heard X is the Greek representation for Christ, although I'm not sure. Thus it is just as valid to say Xmas as it is to say Christmas instead of Jesusmas. Just a thought.
2006-12-04 12:36:44 · answer #4 · answered by Guvo 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The letter X IN Xmas stands for the Greek letter Chi, which is the first letter of "Christ"...in general, it's fine but there are people who do use it to deliberately take "Christ" out of Christmas...
and as for the snarky "christians are dumb, pagan gods get stronger" comment, those symbols no longer belong to those gods...sorry...
2006-12-04 12:30:53 · answer #5 · answered by Krys Tamar 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've found many see it as taking Christ out of Christmas. I can understand that, when referring to the Christian Christmas, it may be rude, but when referring to the secular Christmas, it is no big deal, probably even more correct as there is no Christ in the secular Christmas.
2006-12-04 12:26:33 · answer #6 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Do you mean the celebration of the birth of Christ and our observance of the three wise men bringing gifts. I think it would be easier to answer your question if you were more specific.
2006-12-04 12:31:02 · answer #7 · answered by Francis Z 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christians in early Rome used X in place of Christ in order to avoid persecution on the basis of their beliefs.
2006-12-04 12:30:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah it bothers them, The whole point of Christmas was it was jesus christ's birthday. Hence Christ Mas. I don't understand why someone would want to celebrate a holiday that has no meaning to them, and then rename it.
2006-12-04 12:27:41 · answer #9 · answered by Patrick 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Why should it bother them ?
Celebrations around December 25th for the Winter solstice were going on long before christians sects chose that date (When they got together with Roman Emperor Constantin around 400 A.D.) for their own marketing celebrations.
2006-12-04 12:29:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋