Calling Christmas Xmas

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As a Cuban-American I can’t help but seperate the words Christ-mas. In Spanish the word “mas” means more. So this season is the Christ-more season. Think about that!

My mom taught me not to use X-Mas, then after taking a theology course one summer that our Archdiocese made her take since she was an elementary religion teacher, she came home and said that this is a symbol for prist mastersjewel.com/masons/symbols/mp060906_files/image004.jpg so the X is derivative of that. Though I must add that I’ve never heard or seen her use X-mas after that, just the good ol’ Christmas.

The only time I use the word X-mas is when referring to the John Lennon song “Happy X-Mas (War is Over)” youtube.com/watch?v=WUCbZhIfQbA

Merry Christmas!
 
To the extent that it’s possible, I don’t do business with concerns that use “Xmas.” Of course, around here (in the Baptist Bible belt), you don’t see “Xmas” very often.

As questionable is “Xmas” is, it’s not as bad as the Pagan (Odinist, etc.) word for the holiday–Giftma$.

DaveBj
 
In Britain at least, I haven’t heard that many people pronounce “Xmas” as it’s written, I thought most people wrote it that way to save space and pronounced it “Christmas”. As others have said, the X hardly covers up “Christ” since it represents the first letter (pronounced khee) of Χριστοϛ (Christos) in New Testament Greek.
 
Steel_Pinwheel said:
Who do you see using Xmas? Is it people being respectful of Christianity, or is it people wanting to take Christ out of Christmas?

Why would anyone us Xmas as an abbreviation for Christmas, even if it were inoffensive? Is there not enough space on their page for the whole word, a word I think is rather beautiful?

Why would anyone use the term knowing that some people do see it as disrespectful? Do you use the term “negro” for blacks? It’s technically correct, but you know some people see it as disrespectful. Do you use the term nggr for blacks? Pronouncing Xmas as ex-mas is like saying nggr instead of negro because the Greek letter X should be pounced as Kh (as it is in the word Christ).

Many Church leaders work very hard at not disapproving of anything they don’t have to disapprove of.
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I often use Xmas. There is nothing wrong with that. Its not offensive.
 
thistle said:
I often use Xmas. There is nothing wrong with that. Its not offensive.
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You may not see it as offensive, but you need to understand that the concept of “offense” is detemined by the receiver of the message, not by its sender, regardless of what the sender intended.

DaveBj
 
DaveBj said:
You may not see it as offensive, but you need to understand that the concept of “offense” is detemined by the receiver of the message, not by its sender, regardless of what the sender intended.

DaveBj
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Why would someone take offence to something which is not offensive? That illogical. It means such a person is the problem and not the use of Xmas.
 
personally I use the x mas all the time because I’m to lazy to write or type:o. I never thought much of it and my intentions were not to remove Christ from Christmas.
 
Yes, it does bother me.

Biblical Greek has an ‘x’ and it is not the Chi. THe English equivalent to Chi is ‘ch’ not ‘x’.

Why not abbreviate it correctly, as Ch-mas, or even C-mas if we must. The X should not even be considered because it is just the wrong English eqivalent of the Greek letter ‘Chi’.

Check the alphabet of New Testament Greek; x and chi.
 
hfbcpastor said:
Yes, it does bother me.

Biblical Greek has an ‘x’ and it is not the Chi. THe English equivalent to Chi is ‘ch’ not ‘x’.

Why not abbreviate it correctly, as Ch-mas, or even C-mas if we must. The X should not even be considered because it is just the wrong English eqivalent of the Greek letter ‘Chi’.

Check the alphabet of New Testament Greek; x and chi.
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I agree. As was pointed out above, nobody pronounces it “Chi-mas”; it’s always “Ex-mas,” showing exactly how people read it.

And thistle, continuing to do something that you know offends people shows a lack of charity on your part.

DaveBj
 
There is a letter in Greek NT alphbet for ‘x’ and it is not ‘chi’. ‘Chi’ is equal to ‘ch’ in English. To use the ‘x’ as if a ‘chi’ is just wrong, literally.:):rolleyes:

Try “Ch-mas”
 
Do not like xmas, never have, never will. It’s like someone cutting Christ out of the holy-day. You cannot tell me that the secular world would not like to get rid of the Christ in Christ-mas and make it an X instead.

I think the rumor about x standing for Kh in Greek was started by atheists anyway.

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