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Caroline's right - when I was taught english in school I was taught that when referring to God or Jesus, you would always capitalise, so Him instead of him, or The Son instead of the son, etc..
I don't know if other religions do the same?

It seems to be what the film-makers intended too because that is how they capitalised it in the title.

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As a comparison - how is "The Passion of the Christ" capitalised?
I don't own the film myself, so don't know. Is it "the Christ" or "The Christ"?

Oooh, good one....guess what? It is capitalised in the DB in region 4. Also capitalised in New Zealand, Denmark and Korea. Looks like the rest of them are heathens.

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Not capitalised????
We'll have middle America burning copies of DVD Profiler soon - using Harry Potter books as kindling!

That Harry Potter stuff is the devil's spawn. Burn baby burn.

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BTW, I don't know if anyone noticed, but according to the screen cap on the first page, the title's spelling should be:

"Ben-Hur: A Tale of The Christ" ("The" with a capital "T").

Good catch. I missed it and have contributed the change.

Now Dan...there's something that we can agree on. How about you concede my change now.

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BTW, I don't know if anyone noticed, but according to the screen cap on the first page, the title's spelling should be:

"Ben-Hur: A Tale of The Christ" ("The" with a capital "T").

Good catch. I missed it and have contributed the change.

But we don't capitalize according to how it is displayed. We have our own capitalization rules.

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For English titles do not capitalize joining words such as "of", "the", "a", "in", etc. unless they are the first, last or only word in of the title. "Lord of the Rings" is correctly capitalized. "Lord Of The Rings" is not. "The Matrix Reloaded" is correctly capitalized. "The matrix reloaded" is not.

It's part of the name in this instance.

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Quoting Darxon:

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BTW, I don't know if anyone noticed, but according to the screen cap on the first page, the title's spelling should be:

"Ben-Hur: A Tale of The Christ" ("The" with a capital "T").

Good catch. I missed it and have contributed the change.

Now Dan...there's something that we can agree on. How about you concede may change now.

Your change wound up being correct but your argument was wrong. If you look back several pages ago you will notice that I said as much. The subtitle argument is what was correct and "A Tale of The Christ" is clearly a subtitle according to the rules.

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To be more specific - the change to add a colon was correct. The rest of your argument is still wrong.

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BTW, I don't know if anyone noticed, but according to the screen cap on the first page, the title's spelling should be:

"Ben-Hur: A Tale of The Christ" ("The" with a capital "T").

Good catch. I missed it and have contributed the change.

Now Dan...there's something that we can agree on. How about you concede may change now.

Your change wound up being correct but your argument was wrong. If you look back several pages ago you will notice that I said as much. The subtitle argument is what was correct and "A Tale of The Christ" is clearly a subtitle according to the rules.

Thanks Dan but we still have the sticky Edition being "1925 Version" that you are voting no to being removed. BTW, I stand by my reasoning for the subtitle change.

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You're asking for a fatwa, you are!   

Christians don't do fatwas thank goodness.

How about a Papal Bull?   

Main Entry: fat·wa
Pronunciation: 'f&t-w&, 'fät-wä
Function: noun
Etymology: Arabic fatwA
: a legal opinion or decree handed down by an Islamic religious leader

I guess you have to be an Islamic religious leader for it to be a fatwa.

edited to correct a typo.