[Charles Henrickson]

putting the X in Xmas, burying all trace of its Christian underpinnings.

Actually, it's just the opposite. That thing that looks like an "X" is the Greek letter "Chi," the first letter in "Christ." The "Chi Rho" is an ancient Christian symbol, still found in many churches, and is the "CHR" in "CHRISTOS."

Now, if we can just get more churches to put the "Mass" back into "Christ Mass". . . .

[BigSkyFreeper]

My Lutheran pastor wears something like this symbol on his robe, has the Chi Rho, plus the symbols for Alpha and Omega (beginning and end) and the grapes represent the Fruit of Life:

 

[xp38]

While my freeper nick uses those letters they weren’t from that but I did find it cool. I knew about and it also predated a certain OS from a certain company based in Redmond Washington.