Merry X-mas ?

A friend of a friend who has a friend who made this graphic sent us an email that said:

"My friend, who loves to do art work on his computer, came up with the attached card. Below is his message."

"I made this card up to let the world know it is impossible to "X " Christ out of Christmas. Let's see if we can get this to go all around the world."

Wow! That is a Great graphic !

And it is especially meaningful to me because ---

For years folks have tried to ‘shorten’ the Christmas greeting by substituting an X for the word Christ.

Sometimes they say that this is ‘ok’ because the “X” is a substitute for a greek letter that somehow is the same as the word, Christ.

Well, not being a Greek scholar, that may or may not be true but I seriously doubt that it is true.

And, even if it is, how many of us non-Greek scholars would interpret the X to stand for Christ?

So, ever since this substitution began, it has seemed to me that writing “Merry X-mas” is just plain wrong and even blasphemy.

An email recently came from a friend of a friend who has a friend (are you confused yet) who is good with graphics.

Apparently the friend of my friend’s friend thinks similarly and made the above graphic depicting his views on X-mas.

He really tells it like it is.