[1] Godless tells the story of Jason Bock, a fifteen-year-old boy, who questions his father's Catholic religion.

Fed up with Catholicism, he invents his own religion, Chutengodianism, worshipping the town water tower.

His father forces him to attend weekly Teen Power Outreach meetings, which Jason refers to as brainwashing sessions.

Shin (real name: Peter Stephen Schinner) is Jason's best friend and First Keeper of the Sacred Text of Chutengodianism.

His belief is so deep that he sneaks out during a midnight thunderstorm to climb the water tower, seeking some sort of enlightenment.

After the fiasco at the water tower, Dan holds a grudge against Jason for getting him in trouble and messing up his life.

Magda allegedly helps Henry create his commandments for the "Choots", an offshoot of Chutengodianism.

He breaks from the Church of the Ten-Legged One, forming the "Choots" with his friends, Mitch Cosmo, Marsh Andrews, and Bobby.

Obsessed with a medical book (which Jason says she reads like the Bible), she loves to diagnose her son with extremely rare conditions.

Al usually responds by changing the subject or giving a small speech about faith and God.

The Three Goons, Mitch Cosmo, Marsh Andrews, and Bobby, are Henry Stagg's juvenile delinquents who follow him around and do whatever he tells them to do.