Do you call Christmas Xmas, because the word Christmas means , Christ's Mass and you don't celebrate his birthday.
2006-12-21 14:45:13 · 13 answers · asked by Chase 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
nexusmoon, almost all christians call it Christmas not Xmas.
2006-12-21 14:48:54 · update #1
Xmas also means Christ's Mass. X is the first letter of Christ in Greek. Xmas has been an acceptable abbreviation for centuries.
And as for calling the day something, words are for communication. I'm heading to my parents for Chistmas, not "the day I refuse to name because it offends my atheistic sensibilities."
2006-12-21 14:48:27 · answer #1 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't call Christmas Xmas. What would be the point of that? The Christians appropriated the Winter Solstice a long time ago and decided that it would be a good time to celebrate the birth of Jesus, and as far as I know, Jesus was a great guy. I have no interest in removing Christ from the holiday, and I have no problem with calling it Christmas. I just don't celebrate it.
2006-12-22 20:18:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christmas is sometimes shortened to Xmas, an abbreviation that has a long history.[5] In early Greek versions of the New Testament, the letter Χ (chi), is the first letter of Christ (Χριστός). Since the mid-sixteenth century Χ, or the similar Roman letter X, was used as an abbreviation for Christ.[6]
so...Xmas is not an atheist thing it is a Christian thing...
2006-12-21 14:51:22 · answer #3 · answered by Sugar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NAH. Jesus wasn't even born on 12/25. There are something like 16 other gods (some pagan) who had a life very very similar to him. Born on 12/25, star shone brightly, 3 guys came, born of a virgin, did some miracles, and some other stuff. Christmas is a pagan holiday (as everyone has already said) and was banned until a little over 100 hundred years ago. So, "Christmas" is a pagan holiday mixed with some religious overtones and that is the christmas as we know it for the late 19th and all of the 20th centuries.
2006-12-21 15:13:08 · answer #4 · answered by freethinker 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
All of the Christians I know say/type/write "Xmas" because it's shorter and thus easier. It gets the message across. You're suggesting that using shorthand is somehow not the same as the actual word/phrase.. That doesn't make any sense. Wouldn't you rather say USA instead of United States of America?
2006-12-21 15:00:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most people say Christmas when speaking and abbreviate to Xmas when typing or writing.
No one calls it Xmas when they are speaking, atheist or otherwise.
2006-12-21 14:52:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What's wrong with the word "Xmas"?
And hey... big news for ya... Christmas as we celebrate it in the United States and most other Western cultures has NOTHING TO DO with Christ. In fact, it is almost entirely derived from PAGANISM (with a little bit of the secular mixed in).
So... no whining about how atheists "don't celebrate 'his' birth"... most Christians don't either.
2006-12-21 14:47:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Christmas is Christmas! It was shortened to Xmas for reasons I am not familiar with.
None the less! Christmas is Christmas!
Not an atheist!
The Ol' Sasquatch Ü
2006-12-21 14:49:13 · answer #8 · answered by Ol' Sasquatch 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I hate it when lazy people us Xmas instead of Christmas. It's Christmas as in Christ.
2006-12-21 14:55:10 · answer #9 · answered by Giselle 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I call it xmas b/c it's faster to type. Plain and simple
2006-12-21 14:49:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋