Letters | Are churches mixing up Christian and pagan with Christmas trees?

I notice more and more churches advertising Christmas tree festivals or exhibitions with a range of decorated trees on display in their sanctuaries. What is the significance of the trees that they are displaying in relation to the doctrine of their faith, as I note that non-Christians, commercial businesses and even atheists also follow the same custom of putting up decorated trees?

The only verse I could find in the Bible concerning decorated trees was a section in Jeremiah 10:2-5 where the practice is denounced as futile: “Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen … 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 (King James version)”.

Colin Nevin, Northern Ireland