"If you mean fake religious bullshit, then yeah. Moms." That whole aspect of things also bothered at Avery on a philosophical level. He was still staunchly atheist but, on the other hand, gods and saints were real? But they weren't your eye in the sky types, all seeing and all knowing like his parent professed to believe in. When they were living in Vermont, Dannielle had been a lot more liberal, until they moved and had to toe the party line. He imagined that having a parent experience some sort of religious awakening must be pretty disconcerting. At least Avery was cynical enough not to buy the shit his own parents were selling. "Does she think Patrick is an incarnation of God or something? Touched by an angel or whatever?"
Hadn't he said some pretty devotional words to Apollo too? But that was for show, that was the ceremony of asking for forgiveness, not because he really thought Apollo was his Lord of Light. He wasn't drinking the Kool Aid.