While deciding the case of Durgah Committee Ajmer v. Syed Hussain Ali and Ors, the Supreme Court held that sometimes there are practices, even secular ones, usually considered as part of the religion, that might actually be superstitions and not essential to the religion, and hence excluded from the protection of the Constitution. Through this judgment, the Court expanded further its role in interpreting not only what it means to be “religious”, and what is “essential” and what is not, but also to rationalize religion and to purge it of “superstitions”. If this isn’t a slippery slope, what is?