Merry b-mas

I have always wondered why the hell is x-mas short for christmas. I have had some people explain that it is a cross tilted 45 degrees and it represents Christ. Therefore, it is short for christmas. Stretching it a little, don't you think?

My theory. It a conspiracy by the big businesses to encourage us to buy more products. See, first we had everything Christmassy and was content with our belongings. Then they slip this x-mas stuff out there. All of our christmas stuff is now obsolete. We must now purchase merry x-mas stuff. Then, people get tired of the whole x-mas thing and go out to buy more christmas stuff again. Don't you people see how much control the MAN has over us? Are we all a bunch of lemmings that follow whatever commercialism encourages us to purchase?

I think we should boycott Christmas. Instead of white lights on houses next year, we should hang up black lights. An anti-christmas if you will. And then we can call it b-mas (since the letter "b" is far away from the letter "x" on the alphabet. Also it could stand for boycott). All the decorations would be black. Sounds kinda cool and anti-social. We could have the goth people led the revolution.