That's a bit of a non-sequitur and not entirely correct because those splinter sects sorted out their major differences in literal wars hundreds of years ago, w

That's a bit of a non-sequitur and not entirely correct because those splinter sects sorted out their major differences in literal wars hundreds of years ago, which makes their modern disputes more superficial than meaningful. It's not really a case of fanatism but favoritism. My point about Bavaria was more that this rules out the justification that they likely didn't think of the Christian holidays as being related to the Christian religion the same way Hanukkah is to the Jewish religion: Bavaria doesn't exactly have a record of being overly secular, quite the opposite.