[InsureAmerica]

I feel compelled to add to my last post - in many churches the 'X' is not accepted. As far as your assertions that "it" goes back many years, (From your post: "This goes back many many years and has been reported in many myth debunking publications"), I ask you please to provide 3-4 instances of evidence of this. Provide the names and dates of these publications, if you would please. Many things are reported in myth debunking publications. (philadelphia enquirer comes to mind) For the sake of this discussion, this is wortheless. Please provide, 2-3-4 examples of these publications. If you can do this, then you have the ability to change the perspectives and opinons of others. If you just, as a matter of course, refer to obscure 'things', then you will achieve nothing. I would like the former, rather than the latter, given my proclivity toward learning and understanding about new and unknown 'things'. Please accomodate me. Thanks.

[admiralsn]

I think what I intended to say was that the use of the X for X-Mas was used for many years, and only recently was it seen as a sign of "removing the Christ from Christmas." Obviously, people are going to do what they feel is right in their heart. Even after reading the information found at the sites listed below, some will still prefer to write out the word Christ. Absolutely and completely understood. If you write the full word/name "Christ" intending all due respect to Him, someone else may do the same by writing the letter "X." I didn't mean to start anything, as I myself prefer to write out the word "Christ."

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I found the following information on various web sites:

http://www.of-worth.com/ea/Christmas.htm#Does%20Xmas%20Take%20Christ%20Out%20of%20Christmas?

http://www.pulseplanet.com/archive/Dec99/2041.html

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Xmas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-mas

http://www.juiceenewsdaily.com/1104/news/history_xmas.html?1132372195109

http://www.coffeeswirls.com/archives/2003/12/12/the-meaning-of-xmas/

And from a FR thread from a year ago:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1293598/posts#20

 

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

There are also those who believe that the word "niggardly" is a racial slur. People have been fired because there are those who say it is a racial slur.

It is not a racial slur, and is really, really believing that it is will not change that fact.