Christianity in The Heart of Thomas

Oh you know you've reached some level of extraordinary nerdery when you google karlsruhe katholisch oder evangelisch even though FFS, what are the chances of some seventies shoujo artist knowing the goddamn difference and the implications of the ending are pretty goddamn clear. I mean. The genre draws back to a (widely assumed autobiographical) novel set in a French boarding school and we all know which version of Christianity belongs there.

( The break with traditional western Christian narrative has left me confused )

If you're actually curious: Contemporary statistics say there are about equal numbers of Protestants and Catholics in Karlsruhe. Although Baden in the nineteenth century saw Catholics outweighting Protestants two to one, Karlsruhe was one of the few districts with a Protestant majority. But of course, Schlotterbach isn't actually in Karlsruhe but somewhere unspecified north of it, so who the hell even knows what things would be like a hundred and thirty years later. 2017 stats say Baden-Württemberg has 30% Protestants, 33% Catholics.

I also spent some quality wiki time trying to figure out if their giving their location as "Baden" rather than Baden-Württemberg could somehow be an indication of period, but the only post-WWII entity known as Baden only was further south (and ceased to exist when BaWü was founded in 1952, anyway). So the best indication of "when is this even happening" seems to be Siegfried's groovy sunglasses and flower power hair, unless someone can actually get something useful out of Julius' friend's car.

2020 ETA: According to our lord and saviors Google and Wikipedia, the only thing named "Schlotterbach" in Germany is a tributary to the the tributary to the tributary to some river in the district of Ravensburg, which is in fact in BaWü. On the opposite end of Bawû from Karlsruhe, though, so the real question remains how Hagio even found the name in the first place.