whats up with the "Xtians"?????

[Rick O'Shez]

X sounds a bit devilish to me.

 

[oldbadger]

*blinks*

Awesome. I'll tell that to my homosexual friends, then, shall I?

I love the *blinks*............

....and the Scots, and the Irish............ and anything else LGBTQIA+
.......... and mentally disabled.... and ..... and .......
.... and people whio live in Silly Suffolk! ('morning...Spiny!)

 

[Breathe]

I've never seen Xtian or Xian used as an insult.

I have.

Personally, I dislike "Xtian" and "Xian". I feel it looks kinda disrespectful, and/or lazy.
Yeah yeah yeah I know "muh chi-rho symbol" and all; it's just not that difficult to write a few extra characters. We don't write 'Mslm' or 'Mhmd' because that's how it's written in Arabic, for example. Write it out fully, lazy fingers. >_>

 

[lewisnotmiller]

I love the *blinks*............

....and the Scots, and the Irish............ and anything else LGBTQIA+
.......... and mentally disabled.... and ..... and .......
.... and people whio live in Silly Suffolk! ('morning...Spiny!)

I'm old school internet. We never had emoticons or emojies, so we used to put our expressions between *

Like *scratches his nuts idly, and tries to suppress a bean-induced fart*
But yeah, I've seen threads before where Christian sensibilities were defended. Which I'm okay with.
Any mention of them being 'the most offended' or 'open season on Christians', etc, is laughable unless relating to very specific circumstances in very specific locations.

Everyone knows <insert my group here> is by far the most unfairly picked on.

 

[Rick O'Shez]

.... and people who live in Silly Suffolk! ('morning...Spiny!)

Morning, my Kipperati friend! I sort of get the fish symbol for Christians, but puzzled about the X, is that like a cross which has fallen over or something? Wouldn't "+ian" make more sense?

 

[wizanda]

Because then they've got my name written on them... Zan's

 

[Breathe]

Seems like someone could have mentioned this? I've been writing 'Xian' on various threads, perhaps with one negative comment about it.

Most Christians on here don't really make that much of a scene, especially over something like that.

 

[oldbadger]

Morning, my Kipperati friend! I sort of get the fish symbol for Christians, but puzzled about the X, is that like a cross which has fallen over or something? Wouldn't "+ian" make more sense?

It all depends on whether you think Christians could reasonably be thought of as 'plus-ians' or 'cross-ians'

I think that either X, + or T would make for Christian symbols.

 

[Tumah]

I dont think its because it is tedious to type the whole word. I understand cuting 'super cali fragil listic expi ali doshes' short, but "Christian"?

Why?

Personally I always get mixed up with the middle letters and have to write it over. But either way, the X is the first left of christ in Greek. So I think its just cutting out some letters.

 

[Tumah]

It all depends on whether you think Christians could reasonably be thought of as 'plus-ians' or 'cross-ians'

I think that either X, + or T would make for Christian symbols.

Don't you mean 'times-ians'. 3 x 1 = 1

 

[jonathan180iq]

Maybe it implies that all Christians (Xtians) are Criss-Cross fans?

I would be insulted by that implication too...

 

[Jumi]

I have.

You have? It's an old usage, I don't think it started out as an insult. I've heard the word Christian originally was an insult, but was adopted by Christians themselves. There's even something about that even in wikipedia.

 

[Breathe]

You have? It's an old usage, I don't think it started out as an insult. I've heard the word Christian originally was an insult, but was adopted by Christians themselves. There's even something about that even in wikipedia.

Yeah; I often see it used by people who'd say something like 'stupid xtians believeing in a magic sky ferry in the clouds LOL ur dum'.
So it's kind of a knee-jerk, irrational thing for me; even though I know the origins and so on for it, I just don't like it - not only for the fact it looks aesthetically unpleasant to me.

 

[sojourner]

It seems irrelevent. A lot of books in the bible are long. I havnt seen Xtian used until almost recently. Kind of the same as the wave of peoplen saying "I am not a christian, I have a relationship with Christ" and, I dont know when this happened, people are divorcing themselves from the word religion.

I just thought there was a reason.
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Now Im thinking, I would say a christian would use the full name. Seems like an abreviated relationship with Christ. Words have power.

Nah. It's like using Mrs. or Dr. or Mssrs. or Esq. It's shorthand. That's all.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

Nah. It's like using Mrs. or Dr. or Mssrs. or Esq. It's shorthand. That's all.

thank you.

 

[sojourner]

thank you.

No worries. I think you were assigning feelings and positions to the usage that simply aren't there for most people.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

It all depends on whether you think Christians could reasonably be thought of as 'plus-ians' or 'cross-ians'

I think that either X, + or T would make for Christian symbols.

Poor Christ

 

[Unveiled Artist]

I have.

Personally, I dislike "Xtian" and "Xian". I feel it looks kinda disrespectful, and/or lazy.
Yeah yeah yeah I know "muh chi-rho symbol" and all; it's just not that difficult to write a few extra characters. We don't write 'Mslm' or 'Mhmd' because that's how it's written in Arabic, for example. Write it out fully, lazy fingers. >_>

Thank you. Exactly.

 

[Whiterain]

It seems Christians are about the only group left that it is still socially acceptable to insult.

That's hilarious.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

Jehovah is used in place of Lord God, not Jesus, no one calls Jesus Jehovah, they call God Jehovah, and most Christians are well aware that Jesus could not have been born on Christmas day, as the Shepherds were keeping their flocks in the fields, it could not have been winter, where they would have been kept indoors or in a pen to stay warm, I think.

Get my point, though?