2006-12-05 13:56:23 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
lol, I think people do. It's the people like me who AREN'T christian who use "Xmas" "Candlemas" and "Solstice" for your...holiday.
I refuse to say C-Mas.
Happy Solstice!
2006-12-05 13:58:13 · answer #1 · answered by Meatwad 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Calm down! The pagans are correct that the Church (y'know, the one with the Pope) co-opted this date in history to assimilate them and convert them to Christianity. Today, people say "XMas" because there is soooo much wigginess about this holiday. You have those who actively don't want to acknowledge that it is the date Christians celebrate the birth of Christ. There are those who don't care about the Christians, and want the presents and the commercialism etc. etc. And then there are those who just are offended by the holiday. I mean, they could say "Bah Humbug!", so at least they're closer by saying "XMas".
If *you* call it "Christmas", that's fine. So do I. But the semantics and the arguing over "Merry XMas" vs. "Christmas" vs. "Happy Holidays" is getting to be a bit much.
How 'bout if we all agree to wanting peace during the season!
2006-12-05 22:10:13 · answer #2 · answered by FL LMT 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, Xmas was "invented" by the CHURCH, and since you're not a newbie here, you've had ample opportunity to read about it here before.
I'm not gonna do this whole thing over again - I'm sure someone else already has, with links supplied.
2006-12-05 22:35:20 · answer #3 · answered by Praise Singer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The "X" was the ancient sign for Christ.
The early Christians were often persecuted for their beliefs, and so used symbols to identify them to one another. The Greek letter "X" (Chi) was the first letter of Christos, which is Greek for Christ. So the "X" and the fish symbol which is associated with it were used by these early Christians as a symbol for Christ.
Best wishes - hope this helps your understanding.
2006-12-05 22:14:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
They have been trying to remove Jesus since 2000 years ago, the faith is growing stronger and stronger each day. Do you think if they change Christmas to Xmas it will make a difference to your faith and mine and the millions of Christians out there. I don't think so.
2006-12-05 22:06:25 · answer #5 · answered by charmaine f 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I agree that CHRIST should be left in christmas,but the history of xmas is that x was a secret code for early day christians whom would be persecuted if they even mentioned Christ.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
2006-12-05 22:01:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
lol. Because it isn't a Christian holiday, it's a Pagan one. Christ wasn't born in December. The holiday was adopted in December so that it would be easier to convert the Pagans who were celebrating Mithras' birthday on December 25th.
Can you really bad so uneducated?
2006-12-05 21:59:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Dear sir, it is only a "Christian" holiday because it was taken from the Pagans. Christ was actually born in the late Spring/early Summer.
Blessed Be
2006-12-05 21:58:39 · answer #8 · answered by Celestian Vega 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Because the X is not an "X". It is the westernized version of the Greek symbol "Chi" (like kayak). It was the Greek version of our "C". It is a shortened version of Christ. If you think it tries to remove Jesus, then you're too easily offended.
2006-12-05 22:06:18 · answer #9 · answered by Draco Paladin 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Actually Christians stole the holiday from the pagans and stuck their demigod in it.
2006-12-05 22:01:59 · answer #10 · answered by Quantrill 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
did you ever think for just one second, that it could be the laziness of the American people. we shorten everything that has to be written. we put words together to make new shorter words.
we invent punctuation to facilitate the new words.
could it be that you are just oversensitive and view everything that you do not approve of as an attack on your religion.
2006-12-05 22:12:53 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋