2006-12-24 06:35:52 · 22 answers · asked by ♥Pink Princess♥ 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Never bothered me when I was a Catholic...
2006-12-24 06:39:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, Christmas only came about when the Chrsitians (I think maybe the Romans) wanted to convert people and so took their pagan Winter celebration and changed it to being the Birth of Christ. The actual birth date of Jesus is not mentioned and not mentioned once as a time to celebrate in the Bible, the message in the Bible is to follow God. I do not see Christmas/Xmas as a proper Christian festival as there are idols all around in the form of the Nativity etc. We have no commands to celebrate this day and I see it as a form of worship that is incorrect.
However the concept of goodwill and doing good for each other does not go against anything in the Bible so is doesnt necessarily have to be avoided, just have the knowledge that it is not the Birth of Christ.
2006-12-24 09:17:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it does a bit, after all, who is X???
Christmas, its the Mass to celebrate the birth of Christ
I am not overly religious, but I do feel that is wrong and possibly very LAZY, like the Text Short Hand - its infection and wrong.
2006-12-24 07:31:46 · answer #3 · answered by SUPER-GLITCH 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"yule" particularly contains Christ in Christmas. here this is. X is an abbreviation for Christ, and is present in most of the classic manuscripts of the hot testomony. we at the instant are not doing something that those respected ancients texts weren't doing. wish this enables save it in perspective for you. I desire the whole word, yet won't get in a fret over it.
2016-11-23 15:22:20 · answer #4 · answered by Erika 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They don't say as much as write it. But no, it doesn't bother me because it has the same meaning. X is a Greek abbreviation of the Christus, which means Christ. So it's really the same meaning.
2006-12-24 06:39:32 · answer #5 · answered by Turnhog 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Xmas means Christmas ... why would it offend.
2006-12-24 06:39:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The more fundamentalist they are, they more agitated it's likely to make them, yes. I remember hearing the priest rave on about it when I was a Byzantine Catholic.
2006-12-24 06:48:28 · answer #7 · answered by vinslave 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, it bothers THIS Xian.
(See how dumb it look when symbols replace letters in written text? If we wanted symbols, we'd go back to hieroglyphics.)
And it all started because someone to too lazy to write out one of the titles of our Savior.
2006-12-24 06:59:16 · answer #8 · answered by Bobby Jim 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It doesn't bother me and I use it all the time...to me it's kind of symbolic...the X is a cross...not to mention my typing sucks, lol.
2006-12-24 06:39:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some yes.
2006-12-24 06:37:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
not me,xmas is greek for christmas.
2006-12-24 06:37:56 · answer #11 · answered by Jesus junkie 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋