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I> Hi Bung David,
I> masih mengenai "Xmas", kalo menurut saya, teman2 Bung yg sekular bisa
I> saja sengaja menulis XMas untuk menghindari menulis Christ tapi
I> sejarah mengatakan bahwa penulisan XMas itu benar2 berasal dari bahasa
I> Yunani dan sudah dipraktekkan sejak abad pertengahan. Jika kemudian
I> di zaman sekarang disalahartikan dan disalahgunakan, saya pikir kita
I> tetap perlu melihat sejarah seperti apa adanya.
I> Berikut ini saya kutipkan berbagai sumber tulisan saya, baik yang
I> sekular maupun yang kristiani. Apakah menurut Bung, sumber-sumber ini
I> tidak benar atau tidak kredibel? Mohon pencerahannya.
I> A. SUMBER SEKULAR
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I> #1. Urban Legends Reference Pages
I> http://128.242.205.65/holidays/xmas/xmasabbr.htm
I> The abbreviation of 'Xmas' for 'Christmas' is neither modern nor
I> disrespectful. The notion that it is a new and vulgar representation
I> of the word 'Christmas' seems to stem from the erroneous belief that
I> the letter 'X' is used to stand for the word 'Christ' because of its
I> resemblance to a cross, or that the abbreviation was deliberately
I> concocted "to take the 'Christ' out of Christmas." Actually, this
I> usage is nearly as old as Christianity itself, and its origins lie in
I> the fact that the first letter in the Greek word for 'Christ' is
I> 'chi,' and the Greek letter 'chi' is represented by a symbol similar
I> to the letter 'X' in the modern Roman alphabet. Hence 'Xmas' is indeed
I> perfectly legitimate abbreviation for the word 'Christmas' (just as
I> 'Xian' is also sometimes used as an abbreviation of the word
I> 'Christian').
I> None of this means that Christians (and others) aren't justified in
I> feeling slighted when people write 'Xmas' rather than 'Christmas,' but
I> the point is that the abbreviation was not created specifically for
I> the purpose of demeaning Christ, Christians, Christianity, or
I> Christmas -- it's a very old artifact of a very different language.
I> [Source: Burnam, Tom. "The Dictionary of Misinformation". New York:
I> Harper & Row, 1975. ISBN 0-06-091315-0 �(p. 296).]
I> #2. Timelines of History
I> http://members.theglobe.com/algis/1550_1574.html
I> 1551 - The term "Xmas" was used at least this early for Christmas. The
I> short form derived from the Greek letters "XP," chi and rho, as an
I> abbreviation of the Greek symbol for Christ. (SFC,12/24/97, Z1 p.6)
I> #3. The American Heritage� Dictionary of the English Language,
I> Fourth Edition, 2000, Houghton Mifflin Company.
I> http://www.bartleby.com/61/80/X0008000.html
I> Xmas: Christmas - From "X", the Greek letter "chi", first letter of
I> Greek "Christos", Christ. Xmas has been used for hundreds of years in
I> religious writing, where the X is understood to represent a Greek chi,
I> the first letter of Christos, �Christ�; in this use it is parallel to
I> other forms like Xtian, �Christian.� But the letter X, or especially
I> x, is nowadays more frequently interpreted as a mathematical variable
I> than as a Greek letter, as indicated by the common pronunciation of
I> the form Xmas as (eksmas). Many therefore frown upon the term Xmas
I> because it seems to them a commercial convenience that omits Christ
I> from Christmas.
I> B. SUMBER KRISTIANI
I> ===================
I> #1. Answers in Action, Apologetics, and Cult Research
I> http://www.answers.org/Issues/IsGodaginXmas.html
I> Xmas is not of modern coinage. The Oxford English Dictionary documents
I> the use of this abbreviation back to 1551. Undoubtedly it was employed
I> before that. Now 1551 is fifty years before the first English
I> colonists came to America and sixty years earlier than the completion
I> of the King James Version of the Bible! Moreover, at the same time,
I> Xian and Xianity were in frequent use as abbreviations of Christian
I> and Christianity. You see, the X in Xmas did not originate as our
I> English alphabet's X but as the symbol X in the Greek alphabet, called
I> Chi, with a hard ch. The Greek Chi or X is the first letter in the
I> Greek word Christos. Eric G. Gration claims that as early as the first
I> century the X was used as Christ's initial. Certainly through church
I> history we can trace this usage. In many manuscripts of the New
I> Testament, X abbreviates Christos (Xristos). In ancient Christian art
I> X and XR (Chi Ro--the first two letters in Greek of Christos
I> abbreviate his name. We find that this practice entered the Old
I> English language as early as AD 100. Moreover, Wycliff and other
I> devout believers used X as an abbreviation for Christ. Were they
I> trying to take Christ away and substitute an unknown quantity? The
I> idea is preposterous.
I> #2. Christians Home Page
I> http://www.bibletruths.org/christ1s/ChristAndChristmas.html
I> THE WORD "CHRISTMAS": From the earliest days of Christian churches,
I> festivals celebrating the birth of Christ have been held. In England
I> this festival was known as Christes Messe which meant Christ's mass.
I> From this comes the word Christmas. It is often represented as XMAS
I> because X is the Greek equivalent of Ch, and Ch represents Christ.
I> #3. The Lutherans
I> http://www.thelutheran.org/0012/page24a.html
I> X is an adoption of the Greek letter khi or chi, which is the first
I> letter of the Greek word Xristos or Christos. Meaning the Anointed
I> One, it was the appropriate translation of the Hebrew word Messiah. As
I> such, X in English is used in written abbreviations such as Xt for
I> Christ, Xtian for Christian, Xtianity for Christianity, Xmas for
I> Christmas and so on.
I> #4. Bible Query by Christian Debater
I> http://www.inerrancy.org/lk.htm
I> Q: In Lk 2:1, is it not good for Christians to abbreviate Christmas as
I> "Xmas"?
I> A: It is fine. As R.C. Sproul points out in Now That�s a Good Question
I> p.364-365, it is not an X but a cross that was the abbreviation, and
I> no disrespect of Jesus is intended.
I> #5. Biblical Studies Foundation
I> http://www.bible.org/docs/q&a/q&a-86.htm
I> I have no idea who started using the abbreviation �Xmas� or the reason
I> for it, but I suspect it was simply to abbreviate the term by using
I> the English letter �X,� which represents the Greek letter chi, the
I> first letter of Christos (Cristo") for Christ. If you will note, the
I> first Greek letter of christos, the chi, looks very much like our
I> English letter X. Christos means �anointed one� and comes from the
I> verb chrio (criw), �I anoint.�
I> #6. All Saints' Episcopal Church
I> http://www.allsaintschelmsford.org/ascinsqt.html
I> XMAS: This abbreviation for the word Christmas is often viewed as a
I> modern commercial shorthand, but has actually been in use for hundreds
I> of years in religious writing. Xmas makes use of an old abbreviation
I> for Christ. His name in Greek begins with the letter chi, which looks
I> like an X, and his name has long been abbreviated as X. Using the same
I> shorthand, the word Xmas was recorded in print as early as 1555.
I> #7. Faith Matters
I> http://faithmatters.faithsite.com/content.asp?SID=7&CID=95
I> Christmas, Why an 'X' in Xmas? The first letter in the word is the
I> character chi (pronounced "key"). As you can easily see, its closest
I> visual (though not phonetic) equivalent in the English alphabet is the
I> letter X. Years ago, then, people began abbreviating the term
I> Christmas by putting the letter X for the word Christ. Thus Christ-mas
I> frequently became X-mas.
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