I hope (against hope) that you are right. I fear that they (our kids) might just 'throw out the baby with the bath water' and fail to have any appreciation for the real "greater reality" whatever it turns out to be and however it manifests itself to them; and fail to acknowledge sufficiently the "spiritual need" that is - as far as I can see - part of our inherited biology.
Siti, I believe that they will do all of those things, yet it will be alright, despite the fact that we in our unscientific arrogance have made the world dirty for them, all in less than 300 years, and we still feel proud about our achievements. It would have been better had we remained far back in the stone age at a time when we really were spiritual.
Religion has been part of the human psyche - possibly even for longer than we have been recognizably human. That fact in itself renders the so-called 'great' religions of the world inadequate (at best) to meeting the 'spiritual' needs of our grandchildren's generation. But it also means that we can't - try as we might - simply throw it out it without something to fill the gap in our neuropsychological lives that abandoning the faith of our fathers leaves.
With regards to our children we have no rights. Kahlil Gibran writes it down well:
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.......
(...to times where we may not go....)
I dunno - maybe what we need is less of a re-ligion that links us to the ignorance of our past, and more of a pro-ligion (if that's even a word) that links us sensibly to the (yet to be revealed) scientific knowledge of the future???
In some ways I hope that science will take our children's children out and away to new places.
In other ways I hope that children will learn to despise the word as a lie, because it produces so much badness as well.
People scream about the wonders of travel, or... or... medecine, and quote our achievements. It's true that my wife lives because of science, I really would not want to go on without her, but just wait until developed bacteria let loose upon us and then let's see how clever we have been.
The world is certainly getting smaller - religious unity maybe a far-fetched dream - perhaps even an undesirable outcome even if it could be achieved - but 'harmonious' global relationships among the burgeoning human family have never been more imperative.
The problem is, that if we found and established a perfect harmonius global society and system, that people would take hold of it and within a couple of decades it would be a hell. But our contentious and confronatational natures will save us from that, and the wheel will go round, and come back round, just as it does for, say, our skylark (or any other) population. It ebbs and flows...........
You see, I'm a Deist.......
I think (perhaps) some form of 'rational religion' that genuinely respects differing religious - and irreligious - insights might be just what the doctor ordered. Baha'i is not that. But it does seem that even intelligent people of our generation mistake it for that.
But Siti, that would be something that we dreamed up! We need another Immerser, or a Buddha, coming out of nothingness and calling out their message to the world, a message that goes viral throughout, grasping the imaginations of..... our children's children. No clever gambits, no volumes of bull...... the real message, so simple and clear than any can have it.
That's it....... it will be so simple, so honest, and true.