Jer 10
3 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.
4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
Come on man......where do you think the Christmas tree came from. They cut a tree out of the forest with an ax. They deck it (decorate) with silver and gold and fasten it with nails and hammer. THAT IS A MODERN DAY CHRISTMAS TREE. What idol do you think they are talking about. When Tammuz was killed by a wild boar it was said his blood fell on a dry stump and the next day a live evergreen tree grew. The idol you are talking about is from that day forward they cut down a fir tree in honor of Tammuz who was said to be the reincarnated Nimrod.
As for a primary source, how about the Bible. I just gave you the exact description of a Christmas tree in Jeremiah 10 and if you can't see that............how can you possibly see anything.
Look at what I say about Lent? It is 40 days of mourning the death of Tammuz. In case you don't know God confused languages at the tower of Babel. When he did so those that could communicate went to different areas of the world. That is why Apollo is Tammuz to the Greeks and Horus is Tammuz to the Egyptians etc, etc, etc, etc. Again we might go to a credible source the Bible.
Ezekiel 8
13 He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do.
14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord's house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.
I just wonder if there is going to come a day when you are interested in truth, or are you going to blindly follow what you have been taught. Just so you know, few seek the truth. Most don't seek out why we do things...........they just blindly do as they are told and have been taught. For example, they put up a Christmas tree in their house and think it has something to do with Christ without ever wondering what the Christmas tree really is. If you think that it popped up in the 1600's you might check your Bible.
Your Logic is hollow.
Instead of superficially looking at the text to insert your reading of a Christmas tree, read it for what it actually says:
For the customs of the peoples are false:
a tree from the forest is cut down,
and worked with an ax by the hands of an artisan;
NRSV
Christmas trees are not worked on by an artisan with an Ax. The Implication is clear idols here, which makes sense of the latter phrase the idol being decked with Gold and nails being fastened to it. Verse 5 goes so far as to call our attention to the entire passage being about Idols, not some sort of Primordial Christmas tree (by that I mean the actual evergreen) did not even exist in Middle east where Jeremiah was writing.
I'll rely on this exegesis, more than yours:
"Abruptly the reference shifts from the omens of the sky to the cutting of a tree for an idol. How easy it is for a superstitious population to be awestruck by some celestial phenomenon; but really it has no more significance than a tree felled by a woodsman in the forest—what a stunning reductio ad absurdum! And the reduction is reinforced by the word “hands” in the next colon: an idol is a human creation, an expression of human imagination. The misplaced faith of pagans is nothing but a set of do-it-yourself tasks in a workshop. The subject of “he cuts” is not stated (compare GKC, sec. 144d).
The חָרָשׁ is any kind of craftsman, whether in wood, stone, or metal; here it is clearly a carpenter or woodcarver that is intended. It is uncertain what kind of tool a מַעֲצָד is; the word appears only here and in Isa 44:12* in a similar passage. But the word mʿṣd appears several times in lists of agricultural implements in Ugaritic texts; C. H. Gordon suggests the meaning “scythe,”23 while the Arabic cognate miʿḍad is a bill-hook, an implement for pruning trees. The latter meaning is appropriate if the action described is trimming a piece of timber, but if a trimmed log is being carved into shape (which is more likely), then “adze” is the meaning, as it is in postbiblical Hebrew. One notes the assonance of ʾēṣ, ma‘ăśēh, and maʿăṣād in this sequence, and its continuation with yiṣ‘ādû in v 5*.
The wooden core of the idol is then decorated (or possibly “overlaid”: see Text, vv 4–5*, note a) with silver and gold. But what is meant by the “fastening” in the last colon? The colon ends with the clause “so that it cannot wobble” (וְלוֹא יָפִיק), implying that the image is fastened to a base (so also the implication of Isa 40:20*; 41:7*) or perhaps to the ground, so that it cannot be tipped over or stolen. Though the verb פוק hip‘il appears only here in the OT, the meaning “wobble” is fairly certain: the qal stem appears in Isa 28:7* meaning “stagger.” But one wonders whether there is not an ambiguity here, since in postbiblical Hebrew פוק hip‘il may mean “utter” (words), and the first colon in v 5*, in parallel fashion, ends with וְלֹא יְדַבֵּרוּ “and (they) cannot speak.” Does the expression then also mean “and it cannot utter (anything)”?"
William Lee Holladay, Jeremiah 1: A Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah, Chapters 1–25, ed. Paul D. Hanson, Hermeneia—a Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1986), 331.
Ezekiel 8 being quoted in reference to Lent, leaves me more than a bit confused. What does this have to do with Lent itself? Is it that Lent is a sombre occasion and since Tammuz was weeped for, therefore there is a connection? Jesus wept for Lazurus, Lazurus sort of sounds like Tammuz, therefore Jesus wept for Tammuz. I mean, why not? We're going off any connection right?
We could also look in the bible and see more than a few people fasting for forty days, Jesus, Moses, Elijah and perhaps explain the reason why some early Christians had a period of forty day fasting was in imitation of a biblical pattern, but apparently we must have the least charitable interpretation with regards to the Christian feasts.
Also in appealing to the tower of Babel you are still not demonstrating the definitive connection between all these Gods, you are merely assuming it still. Are you able to provide one primary resource which states that within any of the cults dedicated to the gods you have mentioned that there was ever a forty day fast dedicated to them? Also, if there was, would you not be obligated to say Moses and Jesus engaged in a Pagan fasting ritual?
The concept is the resurrection It might be called dweetha in a hundred years. What is celebrated will stay the same
