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.
Realist4ever, thank you and Wilfried for the explanations behind the story.
And, Wilfried, WELCOME to Free Republic!