But, if it is part of their religion to not have a common ground, then finding a common ground between two religions is impossible. It could be required of a religion to follow certain customs, and one them can be acting on the false hood of other religions. Say for instance, America has freedom of religion. Then a lot of the middle East says that they should cut down anyone by the sword that opposes their religion. America is okay with them practicing their own different religion, but then the Middle East is not okay with America practicing different religions. So then America is a lot like the crew of the Enterprise and the Middle East is like aliens they would incounter that have a culture that is hard for them to deal with in a first contact. So then comes the question, should Americans say that it is okay for Muslims to kill Christians because they told them something other than what their religion says? Then the answer is no, America will not allow that. So then no matter how good America's for father's tried to allow peace and unity even though there are different religions, it was all in vein. No matter how good the intent of our principles, it can never coincide with the principles of all other religions.