No More Xmas
Bya post by: Rob Singleton
Rob Singleton is the lead pastor and founding pastor of Southbrook Community Church located outside of Charlotte, North Carolina. His passion is to see people connect with God in a personal way and experience the life changes that come when you give yourself fully to Christ.
and Rob writes…
…While we’re at it we could change Mother’s Day and Father’s Day to “Parent’s Day.” They’re already doing this in the California school system—why should Ahhhhnold have all the fun terminating tradition? Let’s all have a crack at it! The options are almost limitless. Let’s see, we could change…
Labor Day to “Play Day,” so we don’t offend everyone who doesn’t really want to work…
Valentine’s Day to, “Significant Other Day,” because Saint Valentine was such a traditionalist when it came to marriage being between a man and a woman…
Thanksgiving to, “Entitlement Day,” because we don’t really need to be thankful for things we have a right to in the first place!…
We could change Easter to “National Bunny Day,” and everyone could exchange eggs (very carefully) with one another and buy pet rabbits…
We could change George Washington’s Day and Abraham Lincoln’s B-Day to “Presidents Day” so as not to offend other presidents who may have done little or even harmed our country, but at least—
Cross that one off…already been done.
We could change New Year’s Day to simply, “Year’s Day,” because we don’t want to offend the Old year?…
Columbus Day to, America Day, oops, not popular right now. How about “Hollywood Day” because I’m sure they’ll take credit for it in an upcoming film anyway!
Veteran’s Day of course, would have to go. Everyone knows those boys in Iraq are just there to secure our oil interests and our troops in Afghanistan just want to see new places and try new foods (please tell me you can actually feel the sarcasm through your computer screen). We could call it “Sean Penn Day.” He seems to need recognition in the worst kind of way.
And why limit it to our traditional holidays? We could change our money from saying, “In God we trust,” to “Trust No one!” That seems more of a cultural fit right now.
Man, I’m on a roll! Somebody stop me!…
Thank you Bro. Rob. You hit the proverbial nail square on the head.
As I said in my reply to your post, I met a person this week who thought ‘X-mas’ was just an abbreviation of the word Christmas and it is in a very sick way. Most people are unaware that Madeline O’Hare, a devout atheist was instrumental in coining the term ‘X-mas.’ She spent most of her life trying to remove Christ from everything.
If they don’t believe in Christmas and don’t want to say it, that’s fine… God bless them. But if they think they are going to stop me from saying it… well I say “tough noogies…It’s my right!”
Merry Christmas from BigDadGib
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4 Comments
December 4th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
That is absolutely correct, “tough noogies.” Merry Christmas To BigDadGib!
Jon
December 4th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
I really enjoyed what Pastor Singleton wrote. Thanks for sharing it.
I do need to point out, however, that Madeline Murray O’Hare is not the originator of “Xmas”. The origin of “X” in Xmas is not from people trying to remove Christ. Well-meaning Christians have argued that it is, but the original source is a long-held tradition of using X to represent Christ in a variety of places way back in Church history. As a prime example, look at the popular icthus bumper sticker that Christians have. In many of them there are symbols that are similar to “IXOYE”. They stand for “Jesus Christ Son of God”. The “X” is “Christ” there. In the Church, it has been an ecclesiastical abbreviation for Christ for centuries. Oh, and it derives its origins from Greek, not English, where the Greek letter chi looks exactly like the English letter X.
December 4th, 2007 at 9:08 pm
Thank you Stan and you are correct.
What I stated was that Madeline O’Hare was instrumental in coining the term, which she was. It was widely used by the anti-Christian movement in the late 1960’s and 1970’s by O’Hare and others like her, contrary to what the original intended meaning was.
Since the meaning of the “X” in “Xmas” can be, and is most commonly used today to replace Christ, I refrain from its use.
Thank you again for your comment Stan.
BDG
December 5th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
You know, speaking for myself, I’ve gotten so disgusted with the supposedly ‘inoffensive’ yet strangely offensive ‘Happy Holidays’ that hearing somebody say Happy Chanukhah or ever Happy Kwanzaa makes me smile. At least they commit to something and believe in something, whether I agree or not. Happy Holidays is so non-commital and focus group tested it turns my stomach.
Merry Christmas BigDadGib