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You may have heard it a million times, but the main purpose of Christmas is celebrate Jesus' birthday. Even though I've heard he actually wasn't born on December 25 (they said it was June or July). Whatever day he may have been born on, that's the original purpose for Christmas. Just my two cents.

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The XMAS was a result of persecutions of Christians in early in 2nd and 3rd century AD when it was illegal to worship or to even write the word Christ.

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Xmas is a common abbreviation of the word Christmas.

The "-mas" part is from the Latin-derived Old English word for Mass,

while the "X" comes from the Greek letter Chi, which is the first letter of the Greek word Χριστός, translated as "Christ".

There is a common misconception that the word Xmas stems from a secular attempt to remove the religious tradition from Christmas by taking the "Christ" out of "Christmas".

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