Orders from Brussels: Spell Christ with a lower-case “c

Contender Ministries ^ | November 1st, 2005 | Jen Rast

[Robert A Cook PE]

Our enemy IS islam. (eu spelling.)

There are legally ONLY three classes of people : Islamic fundementalists, slaves, and people who have paid Islamic fundementalists for the "right" to belong to another religion. Temporarily, until converted.

The only other legal class of people is "dead".

[cubreporter]

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Is was and always will be Christ in this household.

[UncleSamUSA]

is THIS what the bureaucrats in brussels and the eu spend all their time on????

With their continent going to Hell in a handbasket, all these whackos are concerned with is being the Punctuation Police???

Hey, eu, I got a new plan for you. Since the issue of capital letters is going to cause such an uproar, the only bureaucratically proper thing for an eu bureaucrat to do is:

eliminate ALL capital letters altogether. ALL of em.

In the new tolerant socialist and appeasement-minded europe there should be NO preferential letters and no "upper" and "lower" cases.

Let the doggone Americans stick with their bourgeois punctuation.

zut alors !!!!

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Here's the pig's ass:

[arthurus]

EU is the successor state to the USSR. They are just getting it together sloly so as not to be too alarming to the proles.

[visualops]

The world is trying the experiment of attempting to form a civilized but non-Christian mentality. The experiment will fail; but we must be very patient in awaiting its collapse; meanwhile redeeming the time; so that the Faith may be preserved alive through the dark ages before us; to renew and rebuild civilization, and to save the world from suicide.
--T.S. Eliot

[KarinG1]

Matthew 5:10-12
Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so men persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Persecute me. Please.

[realist4ever]

Oh my God! Those godless E.U. commies are attacking Jesus grammatically! Quick, everybody donate a lot of money to Contender Ministries for the epic battle against this heinous persecution of Christians!

And now for something completely different: the reality.

The Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union), not E.U., decreed that only when you use 'christus' as a statue of Christ in the Dutch language, that it's written with a lowercase letter. In the name 'Christus', like any proper name, capitalization is retained.

Sorry to rain on the paranoia party. :-)

[Androcles]

Nice to see a realistic explanation - I figured it was probably bogus since they didn't provide citations for the supposed new rules, but I'm impressed you found the source of their mistake.

A mistake, I'm sure, which was honest and not motivated by the urge to panic the faithful and scoop up donations for the 'good fight'...

[Wilfried]

Thanks, Laney!

I was just getting ready to post this:

Trivial detail: the Dutch spelling reform did not request to change the spelling of Christ. Names of persons keep the capital. The new spelling only clarified that when writing about a statue of Christ, then the art lexicon refers to it, in shortened form, as “a christ”. Like “a buddha”. The small case is to clarify, out of respect for the person, that here we are talking about an object, of which there are thousands.

[Wurlitzer]

"islam (insanity for stupid people), ",

Close:

Insane

Stupid

Almost

Mammals

[bwteim]

Realist4ever, thank you and Wilfried for the explanations behind the story.

And, Wilfried, WELCOME to Free Republic!