Merry Christmas

[KEmperor]

Happy Festivus Everyone!


Now who do I wrestle for the Feats of Strength?

[KEmperor]

Actually X-Mas is a correct way of spelling Christmas. The "X" is from Greek and it was spelled that way originally.

It's not being used as "a correct way of spelling Christmas" States. You know that.

I have no idea why you care if someone calls it Xmas.

[KEmperor]

The word "Christ" is substituted with an "X." Now you mean to tell me that people just type or write "Merry XMas" because it's shorter and they don't actually say it? What about that person who says "Merry XMas?" If you think that everyone that says that is just doing it because it's shorter than that showes a lack of common sense.

It is a frickin legitimate way of putting it, let us see what wikipedia says:

Xmas is an abbreviation for Christmas. It is derived from the word ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ, transliterated as Christos, which is Greek for Christ. Greek is the language in which the whole New Testament was written.

Originally, Xmas was an abbreviation where the X represents the Greek letter chi, with a hard ch, which is the first letter of Christ's name in Greek. However, because of the modern interpretations of the letter X, many people are unaware of this and assume that this abbreviation is meant to drop Christ from Christmas. The occasionally seen belief that the X represents the cross Christ was crucified on has no basis in fact; St Andrew's Cross is X-shaped, but Christ's cross was T-shaped. Indeed, X-as-chi was associated with Christ long before X-as-cross could be. The use of X as an abbreviation for cross in modern parlance may have reinforced this assumption.

In ancient Christian art X and XR (Chi Ro--the first two letters in Greek of Christos) abbreviate Christ's name. In many manuscripts of the New Testament, X abbreviates Christos (Xristos). The Oxford English Dictionary documents the use of this abbreviation back to 1551, fifty years before the first English colonists came to America and sixty years earlier than the completion of the King James Version of the Bible. At the same time, Xian and Xianity were in frequent use as abbreviations of Christian and Christianity.

My sentiments exactly.

[KEmperor]

Happy arbitrary date assigned to represent the birth of Jesus in an attempt to morally cleanse a festival meant for casual sex and heavy drinking that just happened to fall on the day chosen for the birth of Jesus to be celeberated.

Err, Christmas.

I already do the heavy drinking, but I'll need a female partner for the causal sex.  6 days to find one, I better get started.......