How do you keep Christ in Christmas?

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   Lori O'Melposted 14 years ago

   How do you keep Christ in Christmas?

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   Uninvited Writerposted 14 years ago

   Writing Xmas does not take Christ out of Christmas.
   
   From Wikipedia:
   "Usage of X for Christ in ancient languages
   
     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 ? and ? used in ancient abbreviations for ??????? (Greek for "Christ"), 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.[8]
   The labarum, often called the Chi-Rho, is a Christian symbol representing Christ.
   
   The occasionally held belief that the "X" represents the cross on which Christ was crucified also has no basis in fact. St Andrew's Cross is X-shaped, but Christ's cross was probably shaped like a T or a †. Indeed, X-as-chi was associated with Christ long before X-as-cross could be, since the cross as a Christian symbol developed later. (The Greek letter Chi ? stood for "Christ" in the ancient Greek acrostic ????? ichthys.) While some see the spelling of Christmas as Xmas a threat, others see it as a way to honor the martyrs. The use of X as an abbreviation for "cross" in modern abbreviated writing (e.g. "King's X" for "King's Cross") may have reinforced this assumption.
   
   In ancient Christian art, ? and ?? are abbreviations for Christ's name.[9] In many manuscripts of the New Testament and icons, X is an abbreviation for Christos, as is XC (the first and last letters in Greek, using the lunate sigma); compare IC for Jesus in Greek."

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   AnaKirkposted 13 years ago

   There's no Christmas without Christ. Personally, I don't give in to the "politically correct" "Happy Holidays." I continue to say "merry Christmas."

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