One of the things that annoys me about Christmas is Xmas. What happened? Why the X?
If its does represent the whole Christian thing, is this a symbol to represent the crucifixion? So we could call it Crossmas?
We all know the story, Pagans had a festival at the Winter solstice. When Christianity came along it piggybacked on the Pagan Festival until it became a ‘Christian’ festival. But its not really is it?
As far as I can see its just an excuse for people to get together in the middle of winter and have some sort of dinner or party to keep their spirits up. (more…)