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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-migrant-children-toothbrush-soap-sleep-court-appeal-detention-a8967431.html
Xianscums voted in 2020 and 2024 to treat children like this. This story is from 2019.
For a moment I thought it was Xian as in region of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China, and I was even more confused
I thought of Ecksians from Discworld.
All the confusion should let people know, don't use this if you want to actually communicate information. Just type Christians. It's not much longer, and everyone understands it. This is only too look cool, not for conveying information.
You sound mad. Have you tried asking your god to make you less angry?
I'm not angry. There are like five comments confused. I dint have a god.
They get extremely offended by it though
By "Xians", I'm hoping you mean Xitter users & not Gen X because I'm a part of that group.
They apparently meant Christians, using the Greek Χ (Chi), the starting letter of Χριστιανός (Christianos) as an abbreviation. I've seen it a few times, but I'm not personally a fan of it due to the obscurity outside of the niche that understands it.
Maybe... but they wrote "X" (latin "Ex"), not "χ" (Greek "Chi"). I'm still thinking "Twitter users" is the most plausible meaning of "Xians" here.
Xians = Christians in the same way that Xmas = Christmas. Sure, the Greek would be more accurate, but it's a whole lot easier to use the button that's already on the keyboard.
Using the Latin lookalike instead of the actual letter is fairly common when you're using a Latin keyboard. I happen to have Greek installed on mine, but I don't expect most people would. Besides, an uppercase Χ is visually indistinguishable from X in many fonts.
i've seen xtians more than xians. and i'm a godsdamned church musician who works primarily in christian churches
X = Christ
Ah, TY for the explanation. Glad I'm an atheist.
Good old "is this capital letter at the start of a sentence meaningful, or is it just a capital because it's the start of a sentence" disease
american protestants on their way to completely alter the way that all Christians are perceived whilst commiting the occasiinal or daily heresy
Not so sure they were ever perceived all that well outside of their own. They just talked themselves up a fuck-ton, and for a long time were the main ones writing, publishing, & distributing history books while doing so. They love to self-promote — it's the hallmark of people with deep insecurities.
As long as you have someone else to blame, right?