4 Responses to “Trivia Tidbit: “X-Mas””

1. Meggan says:

   December 12, 2009 at 4:14 pm

   Didn’t know that. Thanks for sharing.

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2. Tricia says:

   December 12, 2009 at 6:29 pm

   Do you really think that’s the intent of substituting X-mas for Christmas? In some other countries I’ve lived in–supposedly Christian countries–they use the equivalent of “Happy Holidays” in order to remove Jesus.

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3. madame says:

   December 13, 2009 at 5:03 am

   That’s true. The X is the first letter of the Greek word Xristos (Christ).
   I remember reading a long essay twelve years ago, bemoaning how we have substituted X for Christ in the word Christmas, and how awful that was. When I first learned that that X stood for Christ, I felt embarassed for my lack of knowledge, and embarassed on behalf of the ill-informed journalist who wrote that article.

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4. Diane says:

   December 14, 2009 at 9:52 am

   Like madame, I used to think X-mas was a slight on our wonderful Savior, but I have found the knowledge that X symbolizes Christ to be very comforting. Just think, even those who, in our modern day, write X-mas as a way of shortening the word, or trying to leave out Christ, are including Him in spite of themselves:)

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