Many people have been arguing and protesting against the use of X-mas instead of Christmas. These people feel that Christmas is a religious holiday and Christ’s name shouldn’t be removed for other beliefs’ sake.

I personally agree that Christ should stay in the name, but there is one big misconception about X-mas, this is not taking Christ out of Christmas at all. The “X” is actually refers to the first letter of the Greek name for Christ. Christos is the New Testament Greek for Christ.

The first letter of the Greek word Christos is transliterated into our alphabet as an X. That X has come through church history to be a shorthand symbol for the name of Christ.

I am a Christian so this is not a biased article trying to shut anyone up. This is just information that most people don’t know about or have access to.

So now instead of fighting to get Christ back into Christmas, just inform people why there is an “X” and why it is ok.