Xmas or Christmas? Distinction without a difference?

Funny how the atheists are more likely to know the historic background of that abbreviation.

Well, let's at least have the facts about Christmas first.

The holiday celebrated on December 25 was being celebrated long before the Roman Catholic Church decided to make December 25 the day to celebrate the birth of their half god-half human deity. It was the Roman Saturnalia. It was the Roman Festival of Sol Invictus (the Undefeated Sun God). It was the Pagan festival called Yule ( as in Yuletide and bringing evergreen trees into the house to decorate).

The earliest Christians believed that Jesus was born on May 20, or possibly March 25. It wasn't until about 378 CE that Catholics decided Dec. 25 would be the "birthday" of Jesus.

So much for that. Now, as far as I am concerned, if Christians want to celebrate the pagan feasts of the solstice, the Festival of Sol Invictus, the Yule or the Saturnalia and PRETEND it is the day that their half god-half man was born, it's okay with me.

But I really think they should at least be aware of THE TRUTH behind their "birthday celebration".

yule and yule are an identical element. yule is typically used as an abbreviation for the observe Christmas. Many Christians have faith that in case you're taking Christ out of Christmas in calling Christmas yule which you're no longer shooting the real which ability of the Christmas Season. a lot of human beings have faith that pronouncing yule is "X'ing" out Christ from the Christmas Season. I even have consistently, and could consistently confer with it as Christmas, because of fact the term yule to me makes the holiday sound like something you do no longer prefer. For a grinch or scrooge, i'm effective yule may be perfect.

Though I agree there's two different Christmasses, and a distinct difference between the Religious and the Coca-Cola Christmas, I think the reason Xmas came about was just to abbreviate for Christmas on labels in shops and things.

well i wouldn't mind lynching you, but it doesn't pertain to the question, or anything, it just sounds like fun

anyway it's interesting, but i think that xmas resurfaced not because of the greek shortening but because we wanted to shorten it, writing christmas takes so much longer than xmas and since the shortening has became very popular it was the age of technology where writing christmas would take too long

So, not taking the time to write the word "Christ" is a fine tradition? I see it rather as an example of humanity's inherent laziness, even when dealing with the things of God. Besides, people today are not hand copying the entire text of the Bible. They are mostly just signing Christmas cards and have no excuse for not taking the extra second to write out the full word.

I learned this just a Christmas ago that X is the Roman/Latin way of relating to Jesus. I laughed out loud when my Bible teacher told me "Keep the Christ in Christmas! Just use C"....oh how stupid she made herself look.

Lynch you? You really shouldn't sweat the small stuff, Christmas, Xmas, scmecmus so what. I think you seem silly if you really imagine that what you say could raise someones hackles.

Just another example of Xtians wanting the world to change to accomodate their ignorance.

Nothing new.

Don't actually care.

I prefer Yule or Solstice, anyway.