Sick of X'mas.
Yes, i know Christmas is over about a month now. But i still can't get over the fact that people all around call it X'mas. As if the birth of Christ itself is a sin, or marking him with a variable X. Well he is special, with a virgin birth and all, but X?Am i an Xtian too? See Christian is derived from Christ, and we replace Christ in Christmas with an X, what do i call myself?
Did you know that Christmas was coined as a politically correct term? X, as in the instance of a mathematical variable was used to denote a single particular deity and risk offending other religions, where any deity can represent X.
Pluralism - The belief that multiple religions or secular world views are all legitimate and valid. Each is "true" when viewed from within its own culture.
Source: www.religioustolerance.org/gl_p.htm
Yet if each is "true", where's the risk? Where do we run the risk of offending people if all is true? Foolhardy it is, that we should avoid offending people not believing, yet call my saviour (possibly everyone's saviour) X. Buddha didn't receive X. So did Saibaba. Though they are antithetical to the Christian doctrine of monotheism, instead of showing respect to the believers of Christ, we have to settle on our God's birthday and Xday, or Xmas. Let's celebrate Xday/Xmas by selling things nothing related to X at all. (i guess the excessive commercialism wasn't so excessive this year)
Although we preach of a monotheistic God, i don't think we condemned other religions to the point where an X denotes one of their gods. I wouldn't have gods of other religion being codenamed like an endangered species. We do preach of idolatry, but that is up to you to choose. What's so scary about Christ? Is there something that people in this world cannot face, cannot accept that we label him as X? Did Christ come down to haunt you, torture you, cursed you that this world should have his birthday called an xday/Xmas? Do you want to be Mr. X when you send invitations to your friends and family?
He came down in peace, with touches of healing and of miracles, yet this world devoid of any comprehension of what/who he is, simplifies matters by having the believers of Christ acknowledge the notion of Xmas, and other gods have names.
So please, respect us Christians too, by having postcards which bears "Merry/Blessed CHRISTMAS" because 1) he has a name; 2) i am not an Xtian.
posted by kItttttt @ 8:41 pm
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perhaps this may be the source of your comments. while i will not contest the validation of history, i somehow believe that there have been an air of cynicality during which writers/philosophers/linguist decided on abbrevating Christ with an X. Hell must be LOL at the abbrevation of a name of such significance with an X or a Greek letter in the English language, where 1000 years later, when everything is arbitrary and contestable, people would be confused by the significance of the original name and the abbrevation itself.
I still believe in putting the Christ back into Christmas, since the abbrevation has lost its meaning and its own significance is belonging to Greek.
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