Christians, Hindus, and the American Challenge If you support religious freedom, and admit that this nation is a secular one, then you must grant the same freedoms to other religions. Therefore, the Senate should next open with a Wiccan prayer, a chant to Zeus, an ode from the Upanashads, a passage from the Popul Vu, a selection from the Enuma Elish, a page from the Tao Te Ching, a paragraph from the Quran, and so on.But fundamentalists don t want this. Instead they seek the transformation of America into Iran in Public bookmarkswith 1stamendmentconstitutionfreedomlibertypartypopulistreligious Note: Christians, Hindus, and the American Challenge