Dont forget to watch World Greatest Magician On NTV7 at 12pm today.I saw this in the newspaper.

erm, may i know what is Xmas please? I don't think there's such thing around? I only know CHRISTMAS :) Xmas doens't mean anything.

I dont know but in the newspaper its write XMas so I just Wrote XMas.I,m sorry if you dont like it.

Christmas is celebrating the birth of Christ.

Imagine, celebrating Isaac's Birthday but the big banner is Happy Birthday X.

Personally, I do not like to see Xmas as it is removing Christ out of the season.

Xmas is never a short form of Christmas.

(note that we are not trying to hit on the person but the issue itself) ^_^

Sorry, bit out of topic. :)

Isaac

I read somewhere that it's offensive to other religions to have "Christ" in the name of a national holiday. The X is supposed to represent Christ. It's because Chi in the Greek alphabet looks like an X. The X actually stands for Christos("Christ" in Greek).

It's just like the fish thing. I remember asking "What's the significance of the fish and Christ?"
It's "ICHTUS"(The Greek word for Fish)
Iota (first letter of how to spell "Jesus" in Greek)
CHi (first letter of how to spell "Christ" in Greek)
Theta (first letter of how to spell God in Greek)
Upsilon (first letter of how to spell Son in Greek)
Sigma (first letter of how to spell Savior in Greek)

Either way, Xmas or Christmas, it DOES have a meaning. The same meaning both ways, but written differently. Christ isn't being canceled out unless you're looking for Him to be canceled out.

Don't get all heated up and angered by a simple term. There's a reason why they chose the X.

Have a Merry Christmas!

Yo Dawn! Nice explanation there ! Lol .

Anyway , merry belated-christmas to everybody!

Yep, Xmas is just an abbreviation of Christmas.

Another explanation is that X also symbolizes the Cross, but since there isn't such a letter as a "+" in the English alphabet, it is most commonly replaced with an X. And being that the Cross is a symbol of Christianity, then it is deemed appropriate that Christmas becomes "Xmas".

Other examples would include road signs that read "Caution : Deer X-ing" which means Deer Crossing.

Anyway, does language matter? I'm a Muslim myself, but I feel that it is the probably the spirit of Xmas that counts, and not what we call it. Xmas is called different names in different languages, does that mean that it denotes different meanings? No, it doesn't.

Click this link if you don't believe me : http://www.santas.net/howmerrychristmasissaid.htm

One should not turn a non-issue into an issue.

Mele Kalikimaka ame Hauoli Makahiki Hou! (That's Hawaiian for Merry Xmas)

Thanks to everyone that making this thing clear because I dont like to get involve in an issue.