I'm a little slow this evening. What religions place trees up in December?
Half my family are atheists and they put up Christmas trees....just like I do, a Catholic married to a Jew. He is appalled at this Rabbi.
Pagans. Christmas occurs when it does because the Church wanted to co-opt the pagan winter solstice celebration of Saturnalia. We do not know the exact date of Jesus' birth, but we know that it was NOT in winter because of Luke 2:8
"And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night"which they would not be doing in winter
I know some pagans who would be obnoxious enough to send SEA-TAC an "include us too or we sue" letter