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Discussion Boards => Off-Topic => Topic started by: WaulML6 on November 18, 2012, 05:42:50 am
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Christmas is the time to celebrate Christ's birthday. Please don't take the Christ out of Christmas. It is a time to show love in our giving. If you agree with me, please write Christmas. Thank you all. Christmas
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People have their own beliefs about this. I agree with you and write out the word Christmas. How long until Falcon9 tells us we are irrational?
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I write Xmas because it's faster and I don't feel like writing out the whole word. There is nothing wrong with spelling it Xmas. It is not demeaning against Christ or Christianity. If you don't already know X is a Greek word for Christ. Therefore I will continue to write Xmas and no one should be upset at the abbreviation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xmas
The word "Christ" and its compounds, including "Christmas", have been abbreviated in English for at least the past 1,000 years, long before the modern "Xmas" was commonly used. "Christ" was often written as "XP" or "Xt"; there are references in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as far back as AD 1021. This X and P arose as the uppercase forms of the Greek letters χ and ρ used in ancient abbreviations for Χριστος (Greek for "Christ"),[2] and are still widely seen in many Eastern Orthodox icons depicting Jesus Christ. The labarum, an amalgamation of the two Greek letters rendered as ☧, is a symbol often used to represent Christ in Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox Christian Churches.[18]
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I agree say Christmas and say Merry Christmas not happy holidays.
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I toatally agree where did Xmas come from anyway. Christmas is really about the birth of Jesus Christ. If you are against, don't believe or just have any problem with that stop celebrating the holiday. Although I enjoy the commerical part of the holiday season I know and celebrate the religious part of it also. It is about the birth of our savior not all about santa.
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It doesn't bother me either way, but I do enjoy when people in the forum provide educational information to back up what they are saying in their posts. Not only does it help prove the point they are making, but some times I learn some new facts I wasn't aware of previously.
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I hate when people say Xmas. Is it really that much harder to type Christmas?
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thank you all. My original posts said if you agree with me, type out the word Christmas. I didn't ask anyone who doesn't agree to respond at all. Just wanted to see how many people still like Christmas. :)
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X is the Greek symbol for Christ, so it's perfectly acceptable to write "Xmas", however most people wouldn't know that.
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Christmas is my favorite time of the year, and not for gifts. Just the joyous feeling of our Christ born.
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I certainly agree that Christmas is just that Christmas, it representives the Savior's birth, Jesus Christ!!! :icon_rr:
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I love Christmas it is a time to rejoice and have fun
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:heart: Christmas :heart:
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Christmas
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I have no problem with using Xmas for Christmas. It just takes less time and means the same thing but having said that I do usually write it out as Christmas.
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:heart: Christmas :heart: :wave:
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I prefer "Christmas" to " Xmas", but that's mostly because I'm a bit of a spelling wonk.
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I say Xmas because it is shorter and because I know that Christmas was shortened to Xmas because of the Greek alphabet letter X. Why take it so seriously though? The Christmas holiday we celebrate is based on a Roman holiday tributing Saturn that was filled with gift giving and debauchery. That was the reason Puritans did not celebrate the holiday.
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It depends. If I'm trying to get a sentiment onto a tiny tag, I may well write Xmas due to lack of space. I don't think it's a big deal.
Even though I'm a Christian (esoteric), I know that it has become a secular holiday for many people and they are free to celebrate it in that way. Besides, there are plenty of Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims and people of other religions or no religion at all that do not celebrate the holiday. In fact, some Christians such as Jehovah's Witnesses do not celebrate Christmas or Xmas since they believe it is a pagan custom. Christmas along with other Christian holidays were grafted onto to the pagan holidays to get them to convert. So you're really celebrating the Winter Solstice albeit a few days late.
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thank you all. My original posts said if you agree with me, type out the word Christmas. I didn't ask anyone who doesn't agree to respond at all. Just wanted to see how many people still like Christmas. :)
See the thing is with public message boards you don't actually get to dictate who responds and who doesn't, anyone is free to do so. As several people have said using X in place of Christ is in no way disrespectful and is mearly and abbrivation. I mean do you also get offened when people write Dr. instead of doctor or Mr. instead of mister. It's the same concept. There is also the fact that Christmas itself is based on the Pagan holiday Saturnalia. So perhaps Christians need to get their noses out of the air and learn where their tradtions actually come from and give respect where respect is due.
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Sorry to upset you. Was not my intention. Yes anyone can respond, just thought some would not want to. I'm not offended, just asking who uses Christ in Christmas. A simple mistake on my part asking those that do to respond. Of course, anyone can respond. Sorry you took offense to my post. I believe off topic says you can discuss anything and that's what I was trying to do.
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I attended a parochial school for grades 1-8. It was ingrained in us not to use Xmas (even though "X" means Christ). If I am texting and trying to be brief, I will use the abbreviation, but I always feel guilty!
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Who started all the xmas stuff anyway muslims complaining because they don't know Christ. Wrong..wrong..wrong..foreigners...they will not have Christ, but no one will ever tell me i cant say merry christmas. ha
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Who started all the xmas stuff anyway muslims complaining because they don't know Christ. Wrong..wrong..wrong..foreigners...they will not have Christ, but no one will ever tell me i cant say merry christmas. ha
Not everybody who lives in the United States or even North America is a Christian so you cannot say "foreigners", many of whom are Christian or Xtian, are to blame. Certainly you cannot pin the trend to say "Happy Holidays" to be more inclusive on Muslims alone. I use this with people I don't know because I simply don't know what their belief system is and I would feel presumptuous to assume it's the same as my own.
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Well this has caused quite a controversy. I want to thank all of you for replying. I've worked in public owning my own businesses for years. I say Merry Christmas, and on all of my card, I write Merry Christmas. It is Christmas, no matter how you look at it. I appreciate your beliefs and input. On the calendar that denotes national holidays, it says CHRISTMAS. Please reply with all your inputs and I do appreciate it.
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:wave: Merry Christmas! :wave: