[FreedomCalls]

I'm speechless.

[The Red Zone]

This is going to look weird. Even atheists tend not to write "Jesus christ"

[Texas_Jarhead]

"There are no penalties set out for those who insist on continuing to spell Christ with a capital "C.""

Not yet anyway. They've lost their everlovin minds over ther.

[ChadGore]

eu is pronounced eeewww

[Threepwood]

This doesn't shock me too much. Some Europeans tend to look at religion and religious faith as a sort of mental problem or difficulty. Or so it seemed when I was there.

No too panicked about it though. Every knee will bend in the long-long term, and G.K Chesterton rightly pointed out that religiously speaking Europe has been in rougher shape than it is now.

We'll see, the Church is a tough, tough critter.

[RWR8189]

Even if you don't believe in Him, why not capitalize the Feller's last name?

But realistically, how often are eu documents going to refer to Christ?

[JudgemAll]

There is accademic and job penalties and legal respect for not following their pedantic orthographic rules.

They are nuts and extremists of the most stupid kind. There is an orthograph mafia in Europe, an entire industry of correcting mistakes...but cursing, filthy language and rape of children jokes are perfectly ok there. Pharisees form-nazism pales in comparison.

[Cindy]

[Razz Barry]

What about Muhammad?

[JesseJane]

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[AmericaUnited]

Maybe Christ's Father will decide to 'lowercase' Europe.

[LibWhacker]

America lowercases europe.

[AmeriBrit]

That's hogwash! As far as I'm concerned they can take a high dive into an empty pool.

[GOP_Proud]

Ummm...and Mohammed shall be just "mo". No, I don't think so.

[MHalblaub]

"I'm speechless."

I'm also speechless some people believe that nonsense. Brussels is also the capital of the Netherlands. The regulation is only Dutch a one. I don't know much about dutch orthography but as I read the German article Christ should written in lowercase when used as an adjective. Not all you read about Brussels got something in common with the EU.

Try your translators:
http://www.kath.net/detail.php?id=11782

[Revelation 911]

european union

[Dan Lacey]

[horse_doc]

There are no penalties set out for those who insist on continuing to spell Christ with a capital "C."

I think that it is pretty clear that there are going to be be some penalties for those who insist on a lower case "c".

[American in Israel]

News Flash, Christ lowercases europe. Muslim Horde to execute sentence.

[eabinga]

In english you can write ¨god¨ or ¨God¨, but they mean two different things.

e.g.

Christians should do what their god says.

and

Christians should do what God says.

[Tullius]

This doesn't pass the bullshit detector. For one, Brussels does not regulate grammer, or orthography. Ever. Or to make things more general, Brussels stays out of cultural issues alltogether. Imagine the outcry if Brussels told the Académie Francaise how to spell French.

Second, the capitalization of God is mostly an English language issue. Many other languages have no special rules for God, and never had. German, for instance, captalizes all nouns and names anayway, so God, and Christ and Jesus get the same treatment as Cars and Trees and Chun the Unavoidable. OTOH, German does not captalize pronouns, regardless if they refer to God or not.

Third, kath.net, which is quoted as original sorce, has since corrected and retracted the original story. Look here!

And, forth, as is obvious from that article, this always was about a Dutch Language orthography reform where the press misunderstood some of the finer points.