UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, March 6, 1996
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Finding God on your own
By Scott MacWilliams
Kansan staff writer
Growth changes more than just the mind and the noisy. Some KU students see growth as a spiritual experience.
The experience of leaving home and establishing personal values gives people the opportunity to seek out new ideas. KU students are no different. When it comes to religion, some students look for new ideas while others refine the belief system with which they grew up.
"I don't have all the answers," said Andrea Davis, Topeka senior and president of the Baptist Student Union. Davis said her beliefs had changed somewhat since she first came to KU four years ago.
"I also see there are a lot more similarities in the different religions, more than I used to be aware of," Davis said. "Lots of the differences are just language and culture."
Student groups representing most of the world's major religions are at KU. But some students have chosen to not take part in any organized religion at the University.
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"When I go home, I attend with my mom," said Chris Nick, Lenexa junior. "But it doesn't really mean anything to me. I don't go to church at all here in Lawrence."
Many students grew up in homes where two religions were present. Felicia Nguyen, Atchison freshman, grew up with Buddhism and Roman Catholicism.
"I went to Catholic school, but they didn't force me to really buy into it," Nguyen said. "My mom is Buddhist, and my dad didn't convert until about 15 years ago, so he didn't grow up with it."
Nick said his family didn't start attending church regularly until he was in junior high school. His family attends a Presbyterian church.
"It's okay if it gives people something to believe in, but I don't think it should be pushed on anyone." Nick said.
Nguyen said her parents were very supportive in her search for the religion that she liked best. Now she's taking a break from all religions for a while.
"Since I came here I've met people who are Jewish, Catholic, Baptist, a lot of different religions that I never knew growing up," Nguyen said. "I'm from a small town, and there was basically just Catholics and Protestants there."
Nguyen said her mother had maintained her Buddhist beliefs while living in a small, Midwest town, far from a
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"Mom does some of the Vietnamese holidays at home," Nguyen said. "Every once in a while we would go to a temple in St. Louis."
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"I think it is really cool to have had both sides of these different religions," Nguyen said, "I wouldn't have liked it very much if either one he had been really forced on me."
Nguyen said she thought that some people took the Bible too literally and that that might have turned off some college students such as herself.
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"I believe in a supreme being, but I don't fall for some of the mysteries that the Catholic Church talked about," Nguyen said. "When I have a problem, I'll talk to the supreme being for help."
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