Reply #142: One of my Pilgrim ancestors, whose [View All]

[frogmarch]

given name was Christopher, signed his name “Xfer.” Maybe he used the Greek X meaning "christ" for the Latin word “christo” as in Unio cum Christo (Union with Christ).

Xfer = Christo+fer/pher.

In his journals, he identified himself as a Xtian and his religion as Xtianity.

Using X (and Xp) for “Christ” goes back at least as far as the 1400s, a couple of centuries before my distant great-grandfather Xfer was even born.

Most of us atheists don't substitute X for "Christ" to diss Jesus or Christianity. X is just faster to type.