Happy Holidays.
Yeah, I just said that…
I’ve never understood why people get in such a twist over the whole Happy Holidays
thing.
It’s inclusive, right?
No matter who you are it applies to you this time of year.
Even if you’re an atheist, they still celebrate New Year’s and the Winter Solstice or whatever.
But there are people out there who think it’s exclusive somehow, like it’s trying to erase
Christmas or something which is impossible since it’s been pretty much everywhere since
August.
Also, let’s not forget that the etymology of holiday is literally holy day, but whatever.
Every year, we go through the same argument.
According to people like O’reilly there’s a War on Christmas.
The War on Christmas Centralizes.
Over the years we’ve taken on the role of protecting the federal holiday of Christmas.
As you know there are some Americans who are offended by any reference to Jesus Christ.
And that’s what the USA celebrates on December 25, the birth of the baby Jesus.
Right we’ll get back to that in a moment but to other people like Kirk Cameron, it
means that we need to put the Christ back in Christmas.
That’s real that’s a real movie.
Which brings us to the other battlefront in this war – Xmas.
Since the rise of Evangelism in the US, Xmas is portrayed as some corporate way to take
the Christ out of Christmas or some lazy millennial abbreviation like lol.
IDK my BFF Jill.
But the truth is, spelling Christmas out like this is a fairly recent development in history.
Eagle eyed viewers of my last video might have noticed that when Columbus wrote the
word christianos, it was spelled like this.
Ex-pianos.
Because those aren’t the letters XP, they’re the greek letters Chi and Rho.
From the Roman Empire through Columbus and beyond, the letters Chi Rho were short hand
for Christ.
Whether you’re talking about Christians or even Christoforo.
Later, just the letter X came to mean Christ, as in-.
I’m so sorry you had to see that.
Anyway, this is Christmas.
Thanks to Mark and Aven over at the Endless Knot for providing me with that resource and
putting up with my endless questions.
So while Christmas is the acceptable long form English version of the holiday, Xmas
is – and was for most of history – the acceptable shorthand abbreviation of the holiday.
In the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Christmas was spelled like this, I’m not even going to
try to pronounce that.
So, if you really want to put the Christ back into Christmas, I guess we could start by
putting the P back in XPmas.
Although that kind of sounds like some double experience holiday weekend … we’ll work
on it.
I guess technically it should be Chi-Rho-mas but that just sounds… wait…
Chi-rho.
Does that have anything to do with the city?
No.
Geez, you didn’t have to be so mean about it.
Anyway, like Oreilly said, Christmas is supposed to be the day that celebrates the birth of
Christ, but as I’ve talked about at length before, we actually don’t know the exact
day Jesus was born.
There are guesses of course, ranging from…
… Yeah I need to do something with my hair, let me know what you think I should do down
below.
Anyway, that might have just been an annoying joke to you, but since the FCC just voted
to dismantle Net Neutrality, it’s actually a very real possibility.
It won’t happen tomorrow or even a month from now, they’ll introduce it slowly, maybe
in a year or two.
Tired of lag and disconnects while playing PubG?
Upgrade to the Comcast Christ-finityGamer package for only 5.99 a month and never experience
latency issues again.
Make sure you catch Stranger Things season 3 the way it’s meant to be seen – in full
4k!
Add 4KStreamers to your Verizon internet bundle.
If you don’t think they’ll eventually make some sort of adult package too, you’re
delusional.
It’ll creep in like microtransactions, at first it won’t seem all that intrusive.
They’ll be counting on the fact that we’re so accustomed to extra fees that we’ll just
accept it.
Ask Patreon how well that went for them.
In a few years, the internet will be just as bundled and overpriced as cable TV and
we’ll all reminisce about how the awesome the internet used to be.
I don’t want to do that, and I hope you don’t either.
If you’ve made it to this point in the video, that bandwidth joke was 30 seconds.
From the start of that until now, you could have written to all three of your congress
people.
Text ‘resist’ to 50409 and follow the instructions.
Tell them that you support net neutrality and title 2 provisions.
Within a few minutes you’ll have written a letter to everyone.
You can do this for any issue, not just net neutrality, and it’s completely free.
Seriously in the time I’ve been talking you could have done it twice.
And the next time someone tells you to put the Christ back in Christmas, tell them to
put the P back in XPmas, because now, you know better.
You haven’t done it yet have you?
Do it, seriously.
And leave a comment below once you do.
Don’t worry, I’m working on a follow up to my last video which will be out soon, but
I just had to get this out there.
Don’t forget to abbreviate that subscribe button in order to see that, and in the meantime
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