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I don't know of any religions that are against trees. And the Christmas tree's ties to Christianity are tenuous at best, pagans have been using evergreen boughs for centuries to decorate temples and whatnot, and the practice in Germany (where modern Christmas trees come from) likely came from that.
My Jewish coworkers also like Christmas trees, they just don't put any Christian symbology on it. If ties to Christianity were clear, we wouldn't allow our governments to place them in public areas.
What about the antitreeists? They hate trees.
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They’ve had their way for a long time and it’s still illegal at the federal level, but nearly half the country has laws for recreational trees now.
Most of the decorations are non-religious. Baubles descend from representations of apples for the "were halfway through winter" party, lights are just pretty, all that's religious is the star, but also stars are pretty. Mine has a flying spaghetti monster that my daughter made for me out of pipe cleaners in the mid 2000s