That's all well and good, but it simply shows that the Christian religion has in the case of the Christmas tree co-opted a symbol of pre-Christian religious practice. In fact, there is no biblical evidence to support Christmas "trees" as a symbol (coniferous trees being rather scarce in the middle east), or even Dec. 25th as the day Christ was born. It's likely that the date was chosen to coincide with festivals of other religions. I'd say the likelihood that Christ was actually born on what we now call Dec. 25th is about 1 in 365.
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