What does the "X" in X-mas stand for?
Dec. 25th, 2005 03:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nico1908The Pastor of Bay Area Vineyard Church sent me this interesting piece of information:
When Christmas is written "Xmas" it is not attempt to ex Christ out of Christmas. Actually the "X" stands for the Greek letter chi pronounced like the "ch" in Bach. This is the first letter in the Greek title for Jesus. The word is Christos in Greek. So when one places a (chi) X in front of mas they are actually using the Greek letter chi which stands for Christ.
Most Christians are not aware of this so they think it is an attempt to be politically correct. So now you know. (If you didn't already.)
