Almost everyone has wounds from their fathers. Perhaps I read this passage from a certain book when I was a college student. I was not an exception, for my father was strict and rigid. It seems that many fathers were like that. Why? One reason must be that our society has had a stern father-centered, male-centered and senior-centered culture influenced by Confucianism. Additionally, the military culture of command and obedience, derived from Japanese colonial rule, decades of military dictatorship, and a social governing system geared toward rapid industrialization, likely contributed to this culture.

As I grew older, I realized that this was true not only in Korea but also in the West. There are two grand streams of thought and culture in the West: Hebraism, based on the Old Testament, and Hellenism, derived from ancient Greek philosophies.

We can read about many gods in several literary works in........

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