2006-12-24 05:52:45 · 10 answers · asked by fazzybadger 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
Wikipedia's answer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xmas
2006-12-24 06:11:16 · answer #1 · answered by matty.. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christmas literally means Christs mass. Early Christians were often persecuted for their beliefs and would use an X in place of the word Christ. Hence X-mas.
2006-12-24 06:01:17 · answer #2 · answered by Garfield 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm almost 30 now and it was even used when I was younger. I know when I was around the age of 5, people would use that "snow paint" on windows and stuff and instead of writing Christmas, they abbreviated it to Xmas.
Don't confuse it with being politically correct...25+ years ago politically correct was not in ones vocabulary and Xmas is not used to "not offend people."
2006-12-24 06:03:14 · answer #3 · answered by COREY B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In mathematics "x" stands for an unknown quantity. As people celebrate many different things around Dec 25 - Christ's birth, Mithra, Saturnalia, Winter solstice, etc, X stands for whatever you wish to celebrate.
2006-12-24 06:08:21 · answer #4 · answered by donotdespisethesnake 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
X in another language means christ plus it is shorter to write
2006-12-24 06:03:50 · answer #5 · answered by Teletubbies 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think X means "Christ" in Greek.
2006-12-24 05:54:27 · answer #6 · answered by Hiya 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they dont want to "offend" anyone.. which i think it is wrong to not include christ because that is the point of christmas
2006-12-24 05:56:53 · answer #7 · answered by kc 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i X christ out anytime i can. He wasn't even born in Dec, so he is getting Xed
out of where he doesn't belong anyway.
Merry Winter Solstice
2006-12-24 06:04:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Same way christians get xmas out of a pagan holiday...they appropriate it and make it their own.
2006-12-24 06:02:32 · answer #9 · answered by dragonrider707 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I surely don't know, but I don't like it either.
Merry Christmas.
2006-12-24 05:56:30 · answer #10 · answered by leslie 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋