"Peter Aitken" wrote in message news:vjIWe.52862.


Nice try, but no one could possibly be so dumb as to not be aware the
Xtians is shorthand for Christians.


And likewise I thought no one could so easily miss the point. You make me
laugh. What baseline insecurity prompts the need for shorthand of this
type? Are you fearful of writing the full word "Christmas"? Have you been
brainwashed into thinking that merely by writing the letters "C-h-r-i-s-t"
as part of a routinely accepted word you are allowing yourself to be made a
complicite lackey of the great universal right-wing Christian conspiracy?
I have never seen Muslims refer to Xdan, nor have any of my Jewish friends
spoken or written of Xkah during the winter months, so the need for
shorthand appears to be not universal. I conclude, therefore, that you
likely have some particular aversion to the word. Or do you simply not have
the time to type the full word, busy man? If that be the case, I'd suggest
you can't spare any further seconds bloviating upon newsgroups.