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 Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 4:22 pm
Do you agree to commercial banners using X-mas, instead of Christmas?
For me, I don't. It's like substituting Christ to nothing (as X = Christ with X-mas).
Edited: And the fact that the mere Celebrant is deleted. sweatdrop
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Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 8:12 pm
i say no X, that would be literarly taking the Christ out of Christmas xd
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Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 8:56 am
CPUGenuis i say no X, that would be literarly taking the Christ out of Christmas xd ya. i agree
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Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 9:00 am
i dont see whats so wrong with it. would you rather your boss at work have you NOT saying "merry christmas" to customers? thats a bunch of BULL. but honestly, X-mas, even for me being christian, i dont consider that big a deal. just because people use an abbreviated version of christmas doesnt mean its going to change my faith all the sudden if you see what im getting at. sometimes i use X-mas, mainly on cards.
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Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 9:01 am
ya i agree too there should be no x-mas just Christmas
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Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 5:41 pm
SaintChaos i dont see whats so wrong with it. would you rather your boss at work have you NOT saying "merry christmas" to customers? thats a bunch of BULL. but honestly, X-mas, even for me being christian, i dont consider that big a deal. just because people use an abbreviated version of christmas doesnt mean its going to change my faith all the sudden if you see what im getting at. sometimes i use X-mas, mainly on cards.
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Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 5:45 pm
It's weird seeing athiests give thanks to God on Thanksgiving. That's what they're doing. Almost all the commerciallycelebrated holidays have a christian founding, yet they celebrate them the same, without the Christ? It's so wrong, it AIN'T right.
I don't think X-mas is wrong, but when you use it to REPLACE Christ in CHRISTmas, it gets wrong.
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Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 6:08 pm
Well, X is actually greek for 'Christ'. So it's not actually taking the 'Christ' out of it, really. But many people don't actually know that. Personally, I don't mind it, but I don't use it, simply because I know that most people don't know what it really means, and use 'X' as the english letter as opposed to the greek one.
...if that makes any sense at all, lol.
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Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 3:44 pm
xstealsureheartx CPUGenuis i say no X, that would be literarly taking the Christ out of Christmas xd ya. i agree i agree
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Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 4:32 pm
I find it silly that people do become politically correct on issues like this. Wasn't the theme for a while 'tolerance,' and yet during that 'tolerant' time, they decided that they felt 'offended' buy a word that has everything to do with a famous holiday. I believe that if people were truelly tolerant, then they would even tolerate those that offended them. 3nodding rolleyes
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Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 4:54 pm
I always just thought that X-mas was shorthand and didn't carry any sort of political/religious connotation...
Shows what I know.
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Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 1:03 pm
x_Hikari_x Well, X is actually greek for 'Christ'. So it's not actually taking the 'Christ' out of it, really. But many people don't actually know that. Personally, I don't mind it, but I don't use it, simply because I know that most people don't know what it really means, and use 'X' as the english letter as opposed to the greek one.
...if that makes any sense at all, lol. wow! i didn't know that! cool i learned comething new!!!! i do agree though if you do not know what the X stands for and if your are trying to replace the christ in christmas then you should never ever use X-mas insteas christmas. Also i think christmas has a little bit more meaning then x-mas to most people.
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Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 7:18 pm
Some food for thought: What happens when you rotate the X on a 45-degree angle? You get a CROSS!!! So, if it's Christmas, I see CHRIST. If I see X mas, I see a cross! Christmas is still Christmas. Have faith. heart
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Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 7:45 pm
x_Hikari_x Well, X is actually greek for 'Christ'. So it's not actually taking the 'Christ' out of it, really. But many people don't actually know that. Personally, I don't mind it, but I don't use it, simply because I know that most people don't know what it really means, and use 'X' as the english letter as opposed to the greek one.
...if that makes any sense at all, lol. wow....didn't know that... interesting.
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Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 7:54 pm
I seem to recall having gone over this before...
The X is an abbreviation for 'Christ', spelt Χριστος in Greek. The shortening of Christmas to X-mas, while a relatively recent development, is certainly in keeping with a history of Christ's name being abbreviated in writing (typically Xp or Xt). So, while it may be rather lazy to forgo 'Christ' in favour of an X, it has nothing to do with 'taking the "Christ" out of "Christmas" ', as some people say.
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