Jeremiah 10:3-4, Are Christmas Trees Taboo?

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.

//I see this verse quoted every Christmas, by well-meaning Christians concerned about the evil of setting up a Christmas tree. The Bible itself even seems to argue against having a Christmas tree. Jeremiah, quoting the commandment of God, seems to say “quit cutt...