Can anyone help?
During these days, I received quite a lot of people sending mails to me for seasonal greetings. I observed that almost every one wrote “Merry X’mas and Happy New Year”.
When I saw these mails, I felt very uncomfortable that Christ is being substituted by the word of “x” and I sent a reply to those Christian colleagues that it is better to write Christmas instead of x for abbreviation.
Today, I got a reply that explained that Christian could write X’mas because X means Christ died on the CROSS. And it is not a shorthand ~~
Actually, I didn’t think of that reason and it stirred up my mind to think of that question today..full of question marks in my head…Or I should say I am not very convinced by the explanation..
If the one who writes is really for that reason, yes, it maybe true..But when I think deeply, how many people are writing it for quickness only?
I have no absolute answer for that question yet…@_@”