Week 2 Post A

VOCAB-

Filioque: Latin for, " and from the Son" (51).

Dogma: a system of principles or tenets, as of a church.

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE-

1) This one is a little different as far as figurative language goes, I think, but here it is, "He took His apostle Simon and made him into a rock and built a church on him"(53). To me this creates a picture in my head of a man lying on a ground who's turned into a rock and a church is physically built upon him, but for those who know the story or know what he's trying to say you know that they mean that Simon was the foundation of which the church(as in the idea of church) was built on. But the way that Mr. Colbert phrases it it creates imagery of the visual meaning.

2) "They're a single Pope away from reaching their full potential"(53). To me this sort of comes off as a symbol of a sort. He uses the figure Pope to signify/symbolize Protestants reaching their full potential as a religion, which is a fairly strong statement, and he makes his point with the symbol of the Pope in this quote.

3)When Colbert is discussing "The Jesus Train," which would take a while to explain and isn't terribly important, he discusses different trains and one of them is "Crazy Train"by Ozzy Osmond. When Colbert is mentioning their origin for Ozzy He says, " Bum-Bum! Bum-bum, bum-bum, bum-bum! Ay! Ay! Ay!"(49). This is an example of an onomatopoeia. Maybe not your typical WOW! POW! or ZAM!, but it is in fact one and exemplifies Ozzy Osborne's personality and that his "train" is a song; it shows the instrument noise/beat.

QUOTE-

"Catholics have many advantages over Christians. One is marble. For the buck I put in the collection plate, I want some production value. That means a church, not some community
center that doubles as a basketball court"(53). Here's a strong statement about Christianity. You can obviously tell that Colbert is a Catholic, or so he makes it appear, because in this quote he makes it seem as though the Catholics have the most money and create the most elaborate churches. He mentions how when he puts the money in the collection plate he wants production to come from it which is showing how he uses his money to create more churches.

THEME-
Trough the religion chapter a theme of split religion and that we are not really one in the same as far as religion goes, with the exception of a few. He also mentions how Catholicism is more "correct," if I may, than that of Protestantism or any other religions although he does have respect for many others.