The WT campus newspaper editorialized against granting the charter. If we see truth as a shining hilltop citadel, defended at all cost against outsiders, then maybe we should prohibit views contrary to our own. In this case, all we need to do is define exactly which of many versions of truth is the One Truth, develop a self-validating system of absolute certainty and champion that cause at the expense of the rest. If we decide, for instance, that the Methodist way is the One True Way, then we'll run those Mormons right off the porch with a broom. If, on the other hand, we tend to see truth more like water, constantly moving through all of life, circulating through each living thing and giving some of itself to each, then we recognize the impossibility of trying to claim all the water in the world as our own personal possession.
Water is hard to hoard.
Viewing truth in this way, we'll learn to find pleasure in the sound of rain on our neighbor's roof as well as our own, or watching clouds, or peeling a juicy orange. We might invite those Mormons, Muslims, ICOC, Jehovah's Witnesses to join us in dialogue on the porch swing over a cold drink. So to the good bishop of Izmir, I would recommend he allow the truth of Christianity to grapple unfettered with any and all challengers. Don't shrink from a contest between two mighty views of reality. If a mosque rises in the shadow of the cathedral, maybe the Almighty is trying to teach us something.