have you ever wonder why some people tend to write X-Mas instead of Christmas? i was curious about this too and did some net surfing to find out why and i chance upon this article from "The Voice - Biblical and Theological Resources for Growing Christians", whick i am sharing to you just in case you are curious about this xmas thing just as i am. here goes the article below:
Some people seem to get worked up easily about things that are either largely irrelevant or incidental, or that they do not really understand. This seems to be the case with some religious folk when the topic is an aspect of Christianity that is personally important to them.
For example, around Christmas each year there are always those who loudly decry the use of the abbreviation "Xmas" as some kind of blasphemy against Christ and Christianity. This concern has been elevated recently with the public debates about manger scenes and the substitution of "holiday" for Christmas in stores and government venues. Among religious folks, the objection to Xmas is usually along the line that people have taken Christ out of Christmas and replaced him with an unknown (since the Greek letter chi, [C,c] which looks like the English letter x, is the symbol for an unknown quantity in mathematics).
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