On Facebook, there is a status update being passed around requesting that X-mas NOT be used, because it's taking Christ out of Christmas.Another friend mentioned that X in the Greek alphabet stands for Christ... & that we should not be worried that Christ is not being left out.
However, I read another valid point when reading about the Greek letter X... most who speak English & not Greek do not know about what X stands for.
Some use it for a short cut... & some use it because they do NOT want to associate Christ with the holiday... those who purposely do not want to acknowledge "The Reason for the Season", & choose to use X-mas, may not realize, they in fact had put Christ back into it.
I used to despise seeing X-mas, however, knowing now the origin behind it is in fact Christian oriented... I won't be as offended.
With that said, I still will not use it though (unless absolutely necessary, if need to limit characters for something like Twitter.)... Mainly because most average English speaking citizens do not know the true meaning behind Xmas.
Also, take in account that the fish symbol used also bears the same X!! ;o)
So, now you know... & I'd say feel free to pass the word along about X is Christ in Greek... however, I'm afraid someone may get a burr under their saddle & start a protest against Xmas... but if you want to... go right ahead. ... Because I'm not the 1st to say it, nor will I probably be the last.
This is just a thought I've had for the past couple weeks that I wanted to share... & using my blog to do that, I felt might just help me get back into the blogging spirit! ;o)
Like the title says... "The Rambling Train is back in services... where she stops..." ... because I'm not done rambling yet.
Might be back with another blog today... or may wait until tomorrow to do 10 thoughts on Thursday (TOTs) (Some may use it for Tuesday... but I was too tired yesterday to do it... so, I might do mine tomorrow... we'll see!) ;)
I started this blog with a picture out the back of my "new" house from the other day when the snow was really coming down.
Here is another picture from the front at about the same time. (Was so much, it was almost a white out!!)... I'm just LOVING it!!!
As far as I'm concerned... LET IT SNOW... LET IT SNOW!!!
I'm stuck inside, unlike most of you... so, I'm sure, if I had to be out in it all the time, I'd be dreading it... well, maybe not too much, before Christmas...
I've always said, I love snow from day after Thanksgiving until day after New Year's Day. Even if I had to drive in it... Since I'm home 99% of the time anymore... It doesn't bother me if it stays around until March 19th!!
However, my birthday is March 20th & is also the 1st day of Spring... I definitely don't like seeing any of the white stuff after that!! By then I'm tired of it anyway ;)
So, that's about it for this blog... Hope this finds you doing well. Stay safe out there.
For those in the cool climate, stay warm... or if at the other end of this world where it's getting hot... *turns fan on to direct some of our cold your way!* ~ Not all of it... just enough to keep you from over-heating!!
As I always say... I'd rather be cold because I can pile on as much clothes or blankets as I need... but when hot... you can only take off so much! ;o)
Have a wonderful day / evening. ~*Toodles*~
I'd also rather be cold than hot.. for the same reason. I don't mind the snow, although it does get tiresome after New Year's or so. Hubby hates it, probably because he has to constantly drive in it for his job as a truck driver. He wouldn't mind moving south someplace, but I like being close to my family and don't want to move anyplace too far away. And to move where it wouldn't snow at all would be moving quite far away. So we aren't going anywhere any time soon. Glad to see you blogging again! :o)
ReplyDeleteOoh I knew that about Xmas, I just put it because I'm lazy and if people don't want to celebrate it, they don't have to they can use the Happy Holidays nonsense, but then Holiday has still got Holi in it, so they should just use Seasons Greetings instead.
ReplyDeleteI'm the same with the cold too, I can warm up easy, but cooling down in the heat is terrible.
I really like the snow pics, I meant to take my camera out yesterday cos everything was white, but forgot, oh well!
Actually, if you want to be technical, Christ isn't in Christmas per se anyway. The festival in mid-December was originally a pagan celebration, and was "Christianised" to make the forced conversion of pagans to Christianity a bit easier. That said, how many people are thinking about Christ at Christmas anyway? I mean REALLY thinking about Him? Sure, there's the odd moment of contemplation spared by the average Christian, but the majority (not all) still fixate on the gift-giving and don't spare a great deal of thought for Christ anyway. And if they are, then a technicality won't make a difference to them.
ReplyDeleteWe have to face facts; Christmas went from pagan festival to Christian religiousness to worship of the almighty dollar. It hasn't - for the most part - been about Christ for a long time. That's part of why I just don't bother with it any more. And since I'm thinking about Christ and conversing with Him year-round, there's no need for me to set aside a special time to suddenly bring Him to mind now.
As for the objection to Xmas, however, that's not new. I've been hearing the same objection for years, probably close to ten years now. And no doubt the objection was around before I was aware of it, too.
We had three days of dry heat a few days ago, which led us into some pretty big thunderstorms. Lightning actually struck the shopping centre a few blocks away, so I'm told! But yeah, I was outside filming the lightning when I noticed that my shed was blowing away ;)
Oh yeah... it's been around for a long time... I've heard objections when I was a kid (that was 30+ years ago!) ;o)
ReplyDeleteIt's just that I was mentioning it because of what the one friend saying about how X = Christ in the Greek language... just found it fascinating, since, the average Joe / Jane that does not speak Greek, may have not known it. (I know I didn't!) ;)