In order to better understand and manage faith within the citizenry of a secular state, debate about religion must move away from the simplistic and indigent assumption that all religions are the same. They are not. In the eyes of the secular state the followers of every religion, or none at all, should be equal, but extending that equivalence to the faiths themselves is illogical. Although the secular state need not concern itself with the merits of their theologies, it does need to consider whether fundamental tenets of some faiths disallow a synergised existence within a secular social structure. Fundamentalist Muslims and Christians, for example, simply cannot extend theological tolerance to the Hindus and their gods, however much they may wish to. Indeed, they are faith-bound to proselytise and convert.