Talk politics.

Oh I see what you mean. Those were fundamentalist, evangelical types that were opposed to celebrating the holidays. I disagree with the statement on Luther though on that webpage, but Lutheranism was pretty divergent on that stuff, with varying degrees of "high church" with the growth of Pietism in Germany. Bach worked at a pretty high-church Lutheran parish in Leipzig, they even used Marian hymns for Verspers (!) in Latin for Christmas, Easter, and Pentecost. That's something no one in the Missouri Synod would tolerate.