When you write about Christmas, do you write it out or use XMas?

Christ has never been excluded from my Christmas so I have always felt that I need to write it out...just to make a point, I guess!

I write it out, simply because that's how I've always done it. However, I believe the X does mean Christ (or the first letter of the Greek word for Christ), so I believe it's a legitimate way of writing it. Technically, you aren't leaving out the name, you're just using a different language. At my school, the objection wasn't that you shouldn't shorten the name, but the belief that Xmas came from non religious people trying to "X out Christ". But, that's not how it originated. (Although, I suppose a person writing it now could mean it that way). So, I write it out. But, not because I have a moral objection to it. Simply because 6 letters isn't really a chore to spell out, and because it just means extra work explaining that you don't mean anything sacrilegious by using the short form.

I write out the whole word. When I was growing up I was also taught not to put and X in the place of Christ in Christmas.

I always write it out.."Xmas" seems so blasphemous .. Like you are trying to X Christ out... just seems wrong

Christ is definately part of my upbringing and religion. and, therefore, part of Christmas, too. I just wouldn't feel "right" about writing XMas. i always lower my head for a prayer. i always close my eyes for a prayer. i always pledge to the flag...even if only to myself. i don't make "value judgments" on people who use it. i don't find it annoying. i think it's become more of a shorthand way of writing, more than anything else.

hi, charray, i prefer xmas. i think it is more and more fashionable now. firstly, it can sent out very quickly. a few minutes you send out, the receiver can receive it at one. secondly, by this way, we can protect our global enviorment better. so, hope more and more people use xmas in christmas