Over the years I have taken it upon myself to study the worlds religions and learn as much about them as I can. I have come to the conclusion that they are all as valid as any other and tend to agree with those who believe that God has and will continue to send messengers on His behalf to offer new and different insights into His character.

I find it interesting the way that many religions (especially the monotheistic ones) seem to have evolved over time by making small (although often significant) changes to the earlier ones. It seems as though God has sent prophet after prophet into the world only to find He must send another to correct the errors of those who came before the most current one.

Among the earliest of the great mono-theistic religions was Zoroastrianism. Zoroastrianism is well known to have had a great deal of influence on many of the worlds religions, including Judaism and Christianity. It’s almost ironic that Zoroastrians (of which there remain a few) have long believed that a messiah will be born to a virgin much like what Christianity is based on. Some scholars have even proposed that the Three Wise Men were actually Zoroastrian priests based on the direction from which they came.

I also find it interesting what Zoroastrianism has to say about Heaven and Hell. According to it’s teachings God will judge people based on the number of good deeds they have tallied compared to how many bad deeds they are responsible for. A person who has managed more good deeds than bad ones will go to Heaven while those who fair otherwise will be condemned to Hell. They even believe in a place like Purgatory where those who have committed the same number of good deeds as bad will take residence (if only for a time).

This is clearly a simplistic approach to justice which other religions would ultimately do better to address. Christianity offered us an entirely different means of salvation. Jesus based it on a persons faith in Him which is no more fair, if not even further from the truth than Zoroastrianism. Along came Islam and Submission to God which made a little more sense (as a path to salvation) but still based a persons salvation on what they do or do not believe. The Bah’ai Faith and a number of other religions attempted to unify the worlds religions by suggesting that it didn’t matter what religion a person belongs to but only that they follow the path God has prepared for them.

The problem with all of these religions is that none of them allow a person to have a relationship with God without following certain moral expectations (or, at least, attempting to). According to Le-way, the way to go to Heaven is to surrender the knowledge of good and evil which can be accomplished in as many ways as there are to be sincere. The difference is that Le-way condemns no one to hell but provides liberty and justice for all in a place I call Utopia (also called The Land of Oz). Those who have yet to turn their will and their lives over to the care of God will not experience the fires of hell but rather Perfect On-going Justice, Actual Free-will and a Permanent 2^nd Chance (to surrender the Knowledge of Good and Evil and go to Heaven). I call it the right to be a fool or not to be.