Friday, April 10, 1998
Speaks Out
SPEAKSOUT: What role does religion play in your life?
"I’m not religious at all and that’s because when I got to
college I started
seeing the other options that there was and religion just didn’t
fulfill that spot. In society religion works for a lot of people,
and that’s great, but it just didn’t work for me."
Mai Weston – 2nd year Undeclared
"I just believe in having a relationship with God. I think
religion is just basically there for people to feel good about,
so they don’t kill other people or hurt other people. Religion is
not necessarily for people to believe in, but it’s so you don’t
make the world a bad place."
Kaman Edwards – 5th year Sociology student
"Spirituality is a private,
individual thing."
Dithmar Ruaio – 4th year Art History student
"I believe in my own sort of religion – believing in myself and
the people around me."
David Sayan – 4th year Molecular Biology student
"I believe that there’s some sort of higher force somewhere. All
sorts of religions seem to have one kind of lowest common
denominator which is you treat other people well and you treat the
earth well, then it’ll all come back to you. Kind of like
karma."
Chris Kocek – 3rd year Mass Communication student
"I just took religion as a whole set of limitations and
restrictions on your life. I believe what Marx had to say about
religion and that is that it is ‘the opium for the masses.’"
Karen Chu – 4th year Sociology student
"Religion is not really significant in my life because I really
don’t follow any religion and in society it seems like religion is
really dying down."
Alejandra Marroquin – 1st year undeclared