I know who Christ is & believe in Him! Yet, I have often used ‘Xmas’ when I write people in text messages or emails as a short cut. My relationship with Christ & the life I live to please Him means more to me than using a shortcut when talking about Christmas. I don’t think I am taking any meaning out of the Holiday by doing that.

I am not offended by the X in Xmas. I guess it has something to do with hearing Xmas and automatically thinking Christmas. I do disagree with the people who try to rename stuff, like when they call a Christmas tree a holiday tree in order to not offend those who don’t believe in Christ. I don’t expect the non-christian to get all that I do out of the holiday, but why does that mean they have to change the names of all the things that have meaning to me? Why is not an issue to offend the christians when making these changes? Are we going to start changing the names of all religiously inspired symbols? What should we call the menorah?

Thanks for the info on the Chi Rho, it is a cool piece of history to know!