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This episode wraps up the Christianity subsection of the course on Comparing World Religions. From here on out, the course will cover religions that are separate from Christianity. (Note: Some of these religions do come out of the Christian tradition, and some of them consider themselves a version of Christianity.) Before we broaden the scope of the class, I thought that it was a good idea to lay out my biases as the professor. For there are 2 ways to be unbiased: (1) You can have "no dog in the fight," which means that you have no preconceived notions. You truly are a tabula rosa, ready to provide unbiased analysis. (2) You can pretend that you have no dog in the fight, even though you actually do. This is dishonest. So as a Christian from the Baptist tradition, I decided to provide my personal story, including my religious testimony, so that anyone who wishes to critique the teachings of this class can do so knowing exactly what the professor believes. And, of course, I shall try to do my best to be as unbiased as I possibly can be moving forward, even though I do have established beliefs in contradistinction to the religions we will cover in the next few weeks.