by Ganthan » Wed Jun 15, 2011 5:23 pm
Ohhh. So Butch isn't referring to a shrine dedicated to her mother.
She's referring to a shrine of some specific religious belief of her family's that belonged to her mother that she keeps with Gus's permission because he's too great and powerful to worship some other divinity (dripping with sarcasm) and thus has no need of it, which is important to her because it gives her something to turn to for moments of respite in her abusive relationship with her father.
Carla, being an atheist, does not have a shrine, but she brings up her family's medicine bag because although she does not believe in the spirituality surrounding it, it is an old and valuable relic of her family's history, just like Butch's mother's shrine.
Sorry about that, but when you grow up surrounded by nothing else besides Christianity, Atheism and everything between those two, stuff like this doesn't come naturally.
I believe in no God, no invisible man in the sky.
-Andrew Ryan, Bioshock
...and don't forget the ponies.