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My awareness that what we know as xmas is a handy transplantation of a dominant religion grafted onto a traditional festival stretching back millennia to ensure the return of spring, has failed to convince me to go with it.
Archive 2008-12-01 Jes 2008
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My awareness that what we know as xmas is a handy transplantation of a dominant religion grafted onto a traditional festival stretching back millennia to ensure the return of spring, has failed to convince me to go with it.
Bah! Humbug: the analysis Jes 2008
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You must be an exemplary human being, what with loving shite maudlin xmas pap enough to tell strangers to die and all. paul
Holiday songs just after Thanksgiving: Too soon? | EW.com 2009
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I mean, xmas is over and it's been chockabloc since november!!
Are You A Communitarian ? Newmania 2008
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And if you do not pester muslims during Eid then you should offer the same curtesy to criminals who celebrate xmas from a law abiding female with a law abiding family in a northern city who cannot get her head round manchester policing policy! on December 29, 2006 at 1: 24 pm | Reply M&MBM
Largehearted Boy « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2006
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Don't care if gays get married or not as they will be gay and live together anyway, and xmas is just the most recent name for the bronze age solistace holiday.
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If christians wanted to celebrate the birth of their king, they should follow his example … .. feed the hungry, clothe the naked, build homes for the homeless and turn water into wine so we can toast to kindnesses and equality for all. xmas is as it has become … an exercise in material wastefulness and useless plastic crap. enjoy.
Think Progress » Anti-Semitism, U.N.-Bashing Color History of “War on Christmas” Conspiracy 2005
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If there has to be a war on xmas, it should be the churches trying to take back xmas from the commercial interests.
Think Progress » Anti-Semitism, U.N.-Bashing Color History of “War on Christmas” Conspiracy 2005
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December 6th, 2005 at 6: 28 pm gmpy says: there is no war in xmas: terrorpilot. com/xmas. php
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MexConnect. com Forums: Specific Focus: Mexican Kitchen: all i want for xmas is the cochinitos recipie
chained_bear commented on the word xmas
I am endlessly amused by people who think spelling "Christmas" this way is somehow disrespectful, as if it were a simple shortcut. The X it symbolizes Christ in the same way a plus sign symbolizes the cross--it was used in the earliest centuries after Christ's birth (though I don't know exactly when it started). "Xmas" literally means Christ's Mass. So... not disrespectful.
October 16, 2007
reesetee commented on the word xmas
I don't like this spelling only because I think it's kind of...ugly.
October 16, 2007
uselessness commented on the word xmas
But... but... you're X-ing out "Christ"!! You put a big X right through it! Why are you trying to censor his name?! </sarcasm>
October 16, 2007
yarb commented on the word xmas
I prefer xmas to Christmas. There's something cute and cool and a little furtive (?) about xmas.
I knew a girl once who pronounced it "crossmas".
October 16, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word xmas
U, please. Have some respect. It's "why are you trying to censor His name". I mean, for the love of God!
You know, yarb? I like crossmas. I'm going to say it that way from now on, whenever it's spelled xmas.
October 17, 2007
reesetee commented on the word xmas
Crossmas I could do. Xmas...nah.
October 17, 2007
seanahan commented on the word xmas
In the year 3000, XMas has replaced Christmas entirely.
October 17, 2007
jennarenn commented on the word xmas
...making it even *easier* to teach children to read.
October 18, 2007
bilby commented on the word xmas
The X (and it's a biggie) very much resembles a St. Andrews cross, such as that on the Scottish saltire flag. So the religious connection with this orthography is there and not disrespectful, as c_b noted.
Then again it could be pronounced so that is sounds like excemas ...
December 22, 2007