Welcome back, friends.

This is Amy Hall and...

Greg Cogel.

All right, Greg.

We are going to answer some questions today.

And this one comes from Lucy.

How would you respond to the criticism that Christianity is narrow-minded and dangerous?

Well, this is a good opportunity for clarification question.

What do you mean narrow-minded and what do you mean dangerous?

Now, I think I know what people mean when they say this.

I'll cut to the chase and make a distinction.

There is a difference between a narrow view and a narrow-minded view.

Okay?

Something that's narrow-minded is a description of how the person comes to hold the view,

not the view itself.

Actually, narrow-mindedness is a characteristic of an individual, not a view.

A view is narrow if it says this is the right way

and other ways are not correct. And especially if this right way is very, very precise and

specific, it excludes a lot of others, then that's considered narrow. By the way, all views are

narrow in a certain fashion, and that

is that they hold that the view itself is the correct one, and those that oppose it are

incorrect. Now, some people think, well, Hinduism is a much broader view because all religions

...