Dan GoodinTo placate all "war-on-Chrismas" cranks, I'm going to start saying merry x-mas.
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial@dangoodin been doing that since Futurama made a joke about it back around 2002, and now it feels weird to write anything but "xmas".
lxskllrI use the term "jul" because christ doesn't belong in "christmas" they co-opted the pagan tradition. Best thing about jul is lasts as long as I say it does. It starts at thanksgiving, and goes through January at a minimum. Might last through February. If it's cold, and there's a chance of snow, it's jul.
It's a celebration of the dark, and the amazing season of winter. It is for me anyway, and I get way more out of it than the christmas people; whose tree is on the curb 12-26
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Tinker ☀️@dangoodin - I thought the X in Xmas is just the abbreviation for "Christ". So its still Christmas just abbreviated. The X is the first letter of the Greek word for Christ. Also the X represented the cross.
But I do remember some Hard Evangelicals I grew up with say the X was crossing (cross... ing? huh missed that before) out the Christ and was therefore removing Christ from Christmas. But they are a-historical and didnt even know the history of their own religion.... I digress....
aismallard@tinker @dangoodin Exactly, it’s just an abbreviation, the greek version of calling it “C-mas” for short. But culture war’s gonna culture war I guess.
@aismallard @dangoodin - Right? To Dan's point, him saying Merry Xmas absolutely would piss of those type of people who would decry a war on christmas! And it makes it extra funny that its not actually an insult!
scriptjunkie@tinker @dangoodin yes, lots of Xs representing Christ in early Christian symbology
Phil 🇺🇦💙💛🇺🇸 ❤️🏳️🌈❤️🏳@tinker @dangoodin as is traditional
Robin Bradshaw@dangoodin Happy Saturnalia
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Michael Weiss@cazabon @dangoodin To be clear, "Christ" is from the Greek translation of the Hebrew word "Messiah". It's a title, an honorific, and one that was never about a single human being.
Things get muddled over time. A surprising number of people think it's his last name. "Jesus Christ, son of Joseph and Mary Christ of the well-known Nazareth Christs." It's not that in the least.
Ambiorickx@dangoodin Merry Newtonmas!
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