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Martin Lopez
I was writing home on a little piece of paper while serving in the corps. We were told to write home. When I did, after all my heartfelt thoughts, I realized I didn't have enough room to write the whole of the greeting even with a stub of a dull pencil we shared. I wrote, M.Xmas...I'm still here and He knows I love him more than ever! It's not wrong. Be at ease my brother, it was wrote from the bottom of Our hearts.
Michael Ballard
There is no Christmas in the Holy Days that God authorizes. Christmas is a pagan Holiday.
Jennifer Rothnie
That topic is discussed more in depth on eBible in a couple places:
https://ebible.com/questions/321-what-is-the-true-meaning-of-christmas
https://ebible.com/questions/2652-should-christians-celebrate-christmas
https://ebible.com/questions/671-what-is-the-origin-of-christmas
https://ebible.com/questions/3552-should-we-have-a-christmas-tree-does-the-christmas-tree-have-its-origin-in-ancient-pagan-rituals
I don't say 'Merry Christmas' because I do not personally keep it - though I will take greetings in the spirit they are given and say, "Thank you."
Phil Calvert
The reason for Christmas is to celebrate the birth of Jesus.
If you take off mas in Christmas
You get Christ, if I did my translation right the Latin term for mas is masculine, and the definition of masculine is man. Then we put them together we get Christ man.
There for if we take out Christ in Christmas, we are saying that we are not celebrating the birth of Christ. It's then becomes just another day and not the acknowledgement that Jesus came to be with us on that day.
If I can put in my take on it I don't like it being called Xmas at all
VL C
When writing, one can use C'mas instead of Xmas for abbreviation with obviously more edifying results.
Phil Calvert
He wasn't born Dec 25th.
I believe that it is when he was conceived.
Singapore Moses
The answer is YES.
This question comes up every year at Christmas time.
Christmas = Christ + mass, meaning a mass or service for Christ. Removing Christ and adding an X is unchristening this event to relate this event to the Pagan origin. In the first place, there’s no direct biblical commandment to celebrate the birth of Jesus on December 25. There’s nothing in the Bible that would even indicate that Jesus was born on December 25. In fact, there’s much in the New Testament narratives that would indicate that it didn’t occur during that time of year. It just so happens that on the twenty-fifth of December in the Roman Empire there was a pagan holiday that was linked to mystery religions; the pagans celebrated their festival on December 25.
Mary (incarnation of Astharoth, Pagan goddess is given more importance as the mother of God by Roman Catholuc Church. In every Roman Catholic home, they decorate the idol Jesus as very little and small while Mary is BIGGER than Jesus.