http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/09/this-i-believe/?apage=19#comment-80279

Judith, the confusion and the angst of the mixed religions is a familiar story with our generation

As a Hindu and an immigrant, and a parent of two teenage boys I struggle with the concept of religion and the religious legacy I am leaving behind for my children and other progeny of our generation

In India you are a Hindu by osmosis and the rituals while comforting have no express meaning. I am not sure if the rituals are based on fear or faith.

Our parents sent us to catholic schools, and while religious, also attended Mass on Wednesdays at a local church.

My kids are enrolled in Sunday school at a local Hindu Mission - an attempt by my wife and I to teach and give them a religious foundation and moral values.

But my generation teaches the kids based on what we know and how we perceive Hinduism based on our experience growing up in India

I worry those teachings have no relevance in our children’s lives here in the US - unless we learn to adapt our religious education to embrace the philosophical values so eloquently espoused in religious texts and focus less on rituals it is inevitable that the next generation will belong to an hyphenated religion - call it a amalgam of Hindu-Buddhist-Moslem-Jewish- Christian faiths

maybe the world will be better place when that happens

after all if all gods are the same then the hyphenation makes perfect sense and is probably the dawn of a unified world religious order where all faiths are intermixed

What will the terrorists do for a living then?

— Mahesh Shetty