What are we teaching our kids about God?

This article about the religious/spiritual views of American teenagers interacts with a book on the same subject, which calls the dominant creed today "Moralistic Therapeutic Deism" (MTD). Here are some interesting points...

Rather than transformative revelation from God, religion has become a utility for enhancing a teenager's life. Smith and Denton lay out the five points of MTD:

1. A God exists who created and ordered the world and watches over human life on earth.
2. God wants people to be good, nice, and fair to each other, as taught in the Bible and by most world religions.
3. The central goal of life is to be happy and to feel good about oneself.
4. God does not need to be particularly involved in one's life except when God is needed to resolve a problem.
5. Good people go to heaven when they die.

Surely American teenagers did not invent this new religion. A quick scan of bestseller lists, television guides, or public school curricula will reveal MTD's appeal. Indeed, the God of MTD sounds like the "cool parent" teenagers adore.

Obviously, we've got some weak and bad theology. But other than that, I'm wrestling with the two parts I bolded above.

I'm wondering about the connection between revelation and transformation. If we saw "our religion" as revelatory, would it be more transformative?

And, secondly, if teenagers are expressing spiritual views they've learned, what are we teaching our kids about God and what a relationship with Him entails? What are they hearing at home? What are they seeing in your life as a parent? Is it the kind of transformation that comes from revelation?

I'm going to chew on this some more, but what do you think...?