TIL: God hates Christmas trees

[ydoaPs]

"Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: 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. 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. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. They [are] upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also [is it] in them to do good."-Jeremiah 10:1-5

[doG]

And to think....that verse predates Christmas trees by more than a millennia and yet the Christians ignored it and started their contradictory tradition in spite of it.

[Phi for All]

Wasn't there also something in there about "Beware the rabbit that lays brightly colored eggs"?

[ydoaPs]

One should not that this is specifically about natural trees. YHWH has not yet made his opinion of artificial Christmas trees known.

[swansont]

Wasn't there also something in there about "Beware the rabbit that lays brightly colored eggs"?

I think it literally translates as "the rabbit who bringeth eggs that confuseth the eye"

[Janus]

I think it literally translates as "the rabbit who bringeth eggs that confuseth the eye"

 

You mean something like this?

 

[Phi for All]

You mean something like this?

 

Awesome! Come Spring my family is going to look forward to a visit from the Escher Bunny!