Jason Bock's Tenets Of Chutengodianism

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Jason Bock doesn't know what he believes anymore, spiritually speaking. A self-described agnostic-going-on-atheist, he does know that he doesn't buy into his parents' Catholicism. When the local bully lays him out with a punch, Jason gets a literal new perspective on the town's water tower—the tallest structure in the area, it has a presence. Not to mention a belly full of the stuff-of-life: water.

He figures that worshiping the town water tower is as arbitrary as any other god or religion, so why not? Thus the CTG Church of the Ten-legged Gois born. He makes up most of the tenets of Chutengodianism on the fly, often as not to provoke others.

But a religion isn’t nothing without followers, and pretty soon Jason-the-Head-Kahuna has got a

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