As we move toward a religiously diverse America, the call to separate religion and politics grows. As Americans look to the future, different religions are immersed in a common society. It becomes difficult to try to appease and maintain these different religions in the secular social world. For some Americans, the solution is to remove all religious affiliation from the state. After analyzing Wilfred Cantwell Smith's discussion of religious diversity, Maritain's position on the relationship between religion and the secular world, and Hegel's presuppositions on abstract rights, this common question arises. Should the secular world be isolated from the religious dimensions of human life? With such religious diversity among groups of people, government policy could operate without any religious affiliation while still representing the will of the people as a whole. In Wilfred Cantwell Smith's book, The Faith of Other Men, he begins by describing his challenge as a teacher in Lahore. . He mentions that his colleagues were, like the vast majority of students, a mix of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs. As a Christian, he and the rest of the community had to work to build and maintain a religiously diverse community. The missionary college emphasized the message that faith was a serious and fundamental matter, which could neither be taken for granted nor dismissed. This message to Smith may resonate in today's simplistic religious society. The religious life of humanity according to Smith is a religiously plural life, and this is true for all of us. Muslims, Hindus, Confucians and Buddhists are no longer these distant peoples but rather have become our neighbors... middle of paper ...... Hegel fails to approach the common good/will with diversity religious. (Maritain,14.11-19, 73.75, 76-8)After examining the philosophies of Goerg WF Hegel, Wilfred Cantwell Smith and Jacques Maritain, it is clear that society cannot ignore religion. By ignoring religion, society would neglect the essence that makes the individual a whole. There can never be a society free of religion, nor can religion exist without the secular social world in which they are intertwined. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971). Jacques Maritain, The Rights of Man and Natural Law, Doris C. Anson trans, (New York: Gordian Press, 1971 [1943]). Wilfred Cantwell Smith, The Faith of Other Men , (New York: New American Library, 1963).