December 24th, 2007
In honour of it being Christmas Eve, we here at Blogosaurus Vex have decided to dedicate today’s entry to a scriptural reading. I was aided in the preparation of this post by Husband, who was once a pretty hard core born again Christian. (Now he’s a grumpy athiest like me, but still has a head full of theological trivia.) Without further ado, let us review what the Bible has to say about people who decorate Christmas trees:
Jeremiah 10:2-5, 8
Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the ways 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; 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. …But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
Merry Christmas everyone!
Great stuff! I’m taking it. Thanks guys!