*Good Morning, America. Religion isn't going away anytime soon.Dr. Eboo Patel wants for us to get along.

The Interfaith Youth Core was presented today on ABC's Good Morning America with Robin Roberts in her series, The Many Faces of Faith, as follows.

January 25, 2008

TRANSCRIPT

ROBIN ROBERTS (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) We are the most religiously diverse nation in the world, a nation of Christians and Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, hundreds of thousands of young people of faith, trying to make sense of a world where religion is too often used as an excuse for violence and hate.

GRAPHICS: THE MANY FACES OF FAITH

GRAPHICS: DO KIDS IDENTIFY THEMSELVES BY FAITH?

DOCTOR EBOO PATEL (AUTHOR)

How can we, as a group of people from different religious backgrounds, proud of our religious heritage, come together to build understanding and serve others? Because isn't that what, what I feel is the deepest, most powerful part of my faith as a Muslim? Isn't that what you feel as the deepest and most powerful part of your faith as a Jew, as a Hindu or as a Christian? [**Note: Patel's book, an autobiography, has received highly favorable reviews at Amazon. Sounds like another must-read.]

ROBIN ROBERTS (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) For Eboo Patel, the answer to that question was to form a youth group, a movement he calls it, the Interfaith Youth Core, which brings religiously diverse young people together to work with and learn from each other.

Good Morning America (Full Transcript)

*I wonder if there is a secular counterpart to what Dr. Patel is doing? Do we need one? But something like he is doing might help ease the friction between religionists and secularists? ~ BlogHer