Jim wrote:
Jason wrote:
Over 400 people lost their lives in Christmas Tree fire related
incidents last year.
[....]

Jer 10:2 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.

Jer 10:3 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.

Jer 10:4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten
it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

http://www.gnmagazine.org/issues/gn31/christmas.htm
Christmas Before Christ? The Surprising Story


Jer 10:5
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.



It won't kill you to put up a tree.