I’m always reminded of the Sermon during Advent that our Church of Scotland Minister gave when I was in my early teens which he called “Taking the Christ out of Christmas?”.
The Press had been banging on about using the abbreviation Xmas was replacing Christ with an X and attempting to secularise the feast.
He went on to explain that the abbreviation of Christmas to Xmas originated many centuries ago when it was common place to refer to Christ with the Greek letter Chi which looks like an X.
So, in fact, people when abbreviating Christmas to Xmas are still keeping irt Christian!
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