It's Christmas, NOT x-mas

One thing that bothers me is the abbreviation of Christmas to x-mas or xmas. For so long I never understood why anyone, let along a Christian, would remove one of the most important words from one of the most important holidays in the world.

Now, I understand that this is nothing new, that it is something that, in some shape or form, has been happening for a millennia, the taking out of Christ from the word. I also know that 'x' is supposedly the letter 'Chi' in Greek, the first letter of the Greek word for Christ, Christos. That's still not a good enough reason to blaspheme an entire religion.

I also think it's disingenuous that merchants around the world make billions of dollars during the Christmas holiday but still tend to abbreviate the word, or even worse, not even admit that it is Christmas that is being celebrated, all in the name of political correctness.

I hope this stops and that people give the proper meaning to the word and not bastardize it.