Jer 10: 2 Thus says the Lord:
“Do not learn the way of the Gentiles;
Do not be dismayed at the signs of heaven,
For the Gentiles are dismayed at them.
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For the customs of the peoples are futile;
For one cuts a tree from the forest,
The work of the hands of the workman, with the ax.
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They decorate it with silver and gold;
They fasten it with nails and hammers
So that it will not topple.
Heh, heh, someone had to bring this up.
And the calm Christian answer is, please have this ready in case anyone actually ever worships a Christmas tree.
... Generally, one of two things tend to be worshiped around the Christmas season. Either (per faith) it is Christ, or else (per secularism) it is self. The first is infinitely preferable, but neither one entails worshiping the Christmas tree. Not that such a thing is theoretically impossible (and I knew a secular guy who got a tree so big he couldn’t even get it into his house without cutting it further down... pretty good effort for a Selfmas), but we’re barking up an empirically inapplicable tree here. That doesn’t help the worship of the Lord at all.
Just my $0.02
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"Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field are they, And they cannot speak; They must be carried, Because they cannot walk! Do not fear them, For they can do no harm, Nor can they do any good."
(Jer 10:5, NASB).
He's clearly not talking about a Christmas tree.