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It would be hard to include all of the traditions co-opted to create Christmas in a half hour kids show.
Which there are none
Where did Christians get the decorating of a tree?
Jeremiah 10:1-5 even talks against making an idol out of a tree.
It can mean something different to you today, but it is not biblical. And certainly not about Christmas.
You'd make a good American Evangelical by the way you take the Bible out of context.
Christmas trees started as a German tradition where trees were decorated in September with Eucharist Hosts to represent the Tree of Life in Eden, for celebrating Creationtide. As time went on and the tradition travelled, it eventually was used for Christmas.
I'm pretty sure the idea came from Nordic pagans bringing in evergreen boughs in the winter.
You seriously misread that if you think it's about Christmas trees in anything but maybe an abstract way. It's about wooden idols. Who tf is chiseling their Christmas trees into shapes? I thought maybe this would be about Asherah poles or something at least kind of similar but this is a pretty obvious passage about idolatry.