The "X"mas controversy -- Taking Christ out of Christmas

Is it really a bad thing to abbreviate Christmas as Xmas???? I mean it is just a letter, just a word. In this busy world of fast food and convenience stores, texting and IM do we really have time to write out the word Christmas??? People are too busy to stop by or call and you can forget getting a handwritten letter so shortening Christmas to Xmas seems only logical. So why not?? When you think of Christmas you should think of Christ, the only begotten son of God, who came to this earth to save our souls. Christmas is his birthday. When your children have a birthday party and you don't have a lot of time do you say, "OK Little Johnny, this we are going to sing Happy Birthday J because we don't have a lot of time this year." No you plan, talk about it, set out a whole day, spend at least $100.00, and everybody shows up to honor that person. Well.... why should Christ get less? Instead of Veteran's Day should it be V Day, or Memorial Day be M Day? Of course not because we are honoring men and women who put there lives on the line even died for our freedom unlike Jesus who...oh wait did die not just for our freedom but to give eternal life. It may not seem like big deal unless you stop and think that is what Satan wants you to believe. He will tell you don't need to write out his name this year just put an X... then next year he may tell you to X out the holiday all together. That is how he works. He slowly slides the bad in and slowly pushes the good out and unless you are watching you won't even see it happening. Leave Christ in Christmas if for nothing else everytime someone reads it... Christ is what they see. Take a stand for Christ because he took and stand for you.

¹⁶ For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. ¹⁷ For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. John 3:16-17