It’s because decorating an evergreen tree is a Yule tradition that has nothing to do with Jesus.

I don’t know how many other churches do this, but the one my parents took me to when I was a kid would pass out palm branches on psalm Tuesday, with the reasoning for the ritual being how in some Bible story I forgotten most of they laid palm branches down in front of someone like a red carpet.

I personally don’t care because I’m not religious and Christmas is just a day to hang out with people I like, but I do enjoy throwing this out there whenever Christmas trees are mentioned in a religious capacity.

Jeremiah 10

1 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: 2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. 3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. 4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

Jesus would have been against Christmas trees. Paul probably would have loved them fuckers, though.

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