Let’s Keep the “Mas” In Christmas

Let’s Keep the “Mas” In Christmas

Every year there are groups and individuals that unsuccessfully fight to get the word “Christ” removed from the word ”Christmas” so that the holiday might be more widely shared with people that don’t believe in Christmas and are counteracted by people who want to keep the “Christ” in Christmas. Since they have been unsuccessful working from that end, this year a local coalition of Christians, Jews and other religions, atheists and Spanish speakers have banded together to require that the December holiday celebrations in Julian remove the word “mas” from Christmas, because even atheists and Jews can recognize that historically a man named Jesus Christ existed. To them he just wasn’t the messiah he claimed to be. Quite obviously the word “Christmas” is a shortening of Christ’s Mass and Mass is a Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran ritual and therefore seems to exclude even other Christians. Shoppers of all faiths and atheists of no faith all gripe about the masses of people shopping at mass marketers and have joined to give the other meaning of “mass” as another reason for removal of “mas”. Spanish speakers want it removed because it causes them to eat mas and gain mass, buy mas, charge mas on their credit cards and owe mas which can get them into a mas of a mess financially.

©2010 Eric Stamets