I forget often that I come from a lineage of religious families. My mother comes from an evangelical Christian zainichi Korean context, and used religion mostly as protection against and providence from Japanese bigotry. My father comes from a longer lineage of a Buddhist fringe sect borne of an aggressive pacifism movement but ultimately ends up in the tradition of a punishing asceticism. The violence of their religions was all self-inflicted, which means it was hyper present only to family. Our parents are byproducts of God. They are a league of international boomers so broken that they’re lucky if they still believe where they came from.
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I forget often that I come from a lineage of religious families. My mother comes from an evangelical Christian zainichi Korean context, and used religion mostly as protection against and providence from Japanese bigotry. My father comes from a longer lineage of a Buddhist fringe sect borne of an aggressive pacifism movement but ultimately ends up in the tradition of a punishing asceticism. The violence of their religions was all self-inflicted, which means it was hyper present only to family. Our parents are byproducts of God. They are a league of international boomers so broken that they’re lucky if they still believe where they came from.