Nuthin Wrong with Xmas
When you see "XMas", do you get queasy?
You shouldn't.
I wrote a little about this topic last year here on MattChat:
Today, a friend shared a link with me that continues the "XMas" conversation.
Benjamin Corey writes:
Using the phrase “Xmas” instead of writing “Christmas” isn’t some conspiracy by our secular humanist neighbors to remove Christ from Christmas.
Yet every year, we Christians push back in the nonexistent war against Christmas and drive a wedge further between ourselves and the neighbors who Jesus has called us to radically love. The irony is that secular humanists, atheists, and anyone else we want to pin this on, had nothing to do with removing Christ from Christmas.
Writing Christmas as Xmas, as it turns out, is part of the historic Christian tradition.
Yet, those who benefit from the annual war on Christmas are content to allow well meaning but horribly misinformed Christians think that there is some secular conspiracy to remove the name of Christ from the word Christmas.
Well, there isn’t.
Read more from Benjamin:
And whether you see/hear "Christmas" or "X-Mas", remember that Christmas is all about Jesus, whether that be "Christ" or "X".
Out for now......
Matt
