highlyeccentric: Sign on Little Queen St - One Way both directions (Jesus Called)
highlyeccentric ([personal profile] highlyeccentric) wrote2007-12-14 12:55 pm

I was looking for an excuse not to put up the tree...

And Libby Purves has found it. Christmas trees are categorically condemned in the Book of Jeremiah, chapter 10, v. 2-4:
"Learn not the way of the heathen...for the customs of the peoples aredelusion; Because it is wood cut from the forest; The work of the hands of acraftsman with a cutting tool. They decorate it with silver and withgold; They fasten it with nails and with hammers So that it will not totter."


That's it. No tree for me. (YAY! we never remember it until christmas eve anyway, and then i lurks around for months before anyone can be bothered disassembling it...)

~

ed: In medieval/ early modern news, a Chilean priest has been sentenced to recite seven psalms a day as a parking fine. The sentencing judge declares that he did it as a tribute to Gallileo.

[identity profile] goblinpaladin.livejournal.com 2007-12-14 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, that's the Russell's Teapot (http://russellsteapot.com/) guy! Awesome!

[identity profile] highlyeccentric.livejournal.com 2007-12-14 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
who is the russel's teapot guy? i only linked to Libby Purves...

[identity profile] goblinpaladin.livejournal.com 2007-12-14 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
The place Libby found that thing was the Russell's Teapot site. A very amusing atheist/religious-satire website.