X-mas or Christmas?

Question

Do you think saying X-mas is sacrilegious. Christ-mas its like ur trying to take CHRIST from CHRISTMAS if you get what im saying........ what do you think?

Answer 1

I always say and write it, CHRISTMAS. After all it is the birth of Christ that we are celebrating. Let's not leave Him out.

Answer 2

continuing with water neeter said...

X-Mas is actually saying Christmas. In early Christian culture they had to speak using code. This is where the icthus came from (the fish symbol). People would identify Christ using XP, which in Greek is called Chi Rho. The first to letters of Jesus name. Later it was known that X was a symbol for Christ as it was the first letter of Christ in Greek (Chi is symbolized with an X but is a CH). So X-Mas was Christ Mass or celebration of Christ.

However, like Christmas itself, XMas has been genericized and turned into a commercial holiday by a great many. I don't care one way or another and I work for a church. As long as the emphasis is on love and family, then I am happy. When the focus shifts to presents, then I get a little annoyed.

Answer 3

Christmas is the proper name of this holiday..an interesting note here, "holiday" is actually a combination of the words "holy day", and so even if one does not say Christmas, if you wish someone a happy holiday, you are wishing them a happy holy day...not quite recognizing Christ, though, is it?

Legend has it that, X-mas was the sign of the cross next to the word Mas or Mass, to signify CHRISTMAS....(the word Christmas literally means a holy celebration of the Christ.)

Over time, Xmas became so secularized that it lost all meaning, if there ever truly was any, of a Christian nature.

I always try to use Christmas, because the true reason and origin of this particular holiday, was that the early Christians saw the pagans and other religions celebrating solstice with feasts, orgies, and debauchery and sin...not wishing to have anyone take THEM for pagans, they chose the time of solstice to celebrate the fact that Jesus Christ was born...even though no one truly knows the real date of Jesus' birth into human flesh, Christmas is when we celebrate it, and it occurs when it does because of early Christendom wanting to honor Jesus Christ and not be mixed up in anything unGodly.

So I say it IS Christmas!

Answer 4

"Christmas" and also
"Ho,Ho,Ho, not He,He,He !!!!

and not "Happy Holidays" IM not going to take a "Holiday" I havent been on a "Holiday"in years! or as us Americans say "Vacation"

The word "Christmas" originated as a contraction of "Christ's mass." It is derived from the Middle English Christemasse and Old English Cristes mæsse, a phrase first recorded in 1038.[1] 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.[2] Hence, "Xmas" is often used as an abbreviation for Christmas.

Answer 5

If you pronounce the "x" as cross, I think you can retain the meaning. I don't see that it's such a big deal, though, because if you take Christ out of Christmas, you still have the mass, a worship service celebrating God's attempt to provide us with a way to choose salvation.

Answer 6

Christmas.

Answer 7

I am deeply offended by the term x-mas. I always wish others Merry Christmas!

Answer 8

I say merry christmas to everyone !!! and I wont stop it just because of some christ haters

Answer 9

The be conscious "Christ" and its compounds, alongside with "Christmas", have been abbreviated for a minimum of the previous a million,000 years, long until now the trendy "yuletide" exchange into standard. "Christ" exchange into regularly written as "XP" or "Xt"; there are references interior the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as some distance decrease back as 1021 advert. This X and P arose because of the fact the uppercase varieties of the Greek letters ? and ?), utilized in historic abbreviations for ??????? (Greek for "Christ"), and are nonetheless extremely considered in many jap Orthodox icons depicting Jesus Christ. And The “X” in “X-mas” is the Greek letter “chi,” that's the 1st letter interior the Greek spelling of “Christ,” itself a be conscious whose origins are Greek. additionally The be conscious for Christ in Greek is Xristos. in the process the sixteenth century, Europeans began utilising the 1st preliminary of Christ's call, "X" as against the be conscious Christ in Christmas as a shorthand style of the be conscious. in spite of if the early Christians understood that X stood for Christ's call, later Christians who did no longer understand the Greek language mistook "yuletide" as a demonstration of disrespect. Many web pages clarify using "X" for Christ, that isn't any longer disrespectful.

Answer 10

CHRISTMAS......keep the Christ in that's what it is all about.....Merry Christmas !