One more cult that has gained international notoriety for leading the mass murder of many is called Aum Shinrikyo. Chizuo Matsumoto who is commonly known as Shoko Asahara was the one who established the cult. Born into a poor family of seven children and partially blind, he failed to gain entry into a university. Falling back to plan B he pursued a career in herbal medicine but was fined for not having a proper license. 1981 was about the time he seriously peered into Taoism and Chinese Astrology but it was not until 1987 that the religion of truth was founded ("Shoko Asahara Biography"). Currently known as Aleph this Japanese new religious movement ("Reader") continues to grow, in fact, it is averaging two-hundred new members per year and
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They’re beliefs help to support the reason why they were classified as a cult because a cult is "a small religious group...that has beliefs regarded by many people as extreme or dangerous" ("Cult"). March 20, 1995 was when those beliefs were realized because the followers of Asahara set free a nerve agent that had the potential kill ("Seto") at Kasumigaseki station which is near a number of government ministries. Nazi scientists first developed this nerve agent which they labeled sarin and is said to be five hundred times more poisonous than cyanide …show more content…
1993 was when Asahara decided to mass produce sarin and after a triumphant test run in Matsumoto the increasingly dangerous cult decided to make a chemical plant. Suspicious that the Aum Shinrikyo committed the Matsumoto sarin incident the police began an investigation forcing the cult to make an effort to try to hide the evidence ("Seto"). Alas, that incident was not enough to deter them. Perpetrators pierced packages that give the impression of being lunch boxes or bottles filled with drinks. Sarin in its liquid form leaked out and changed the lives of many people ("Fletcher"). Two hundred and seventy-four people were hospitalized and at least seven lives were taken ("Seto"). Scores of members were punished by serving varying jail terms for doing that detestable act and five members were found to be deserving of death because of it ("Nerve Gas Attack on Tokyo Subway”). Japanese people were outraged that one cult lead to the murder of so many and newspapers flew off the shelves. Crimes of that nature simply did not happen amplifying the cults
They’re beliefs help to support the reason why they were classified as a cult because a cult is "a small religious group...that has beliefs regarded by many people as extreme or dangerous" ("Cult"). March 20, 1995 was when those beliefs were realized because the followers of Asahara set free a nerve agent that had the potential kill ("Seto") at Kasumigaseki station which is near a number of government ministries. Nazi scientists first developed this nerve agent which they labeled sarin and is said to be five hundred times more poisonous than cyanide …show more content…
1993 was when Asahara decided to mass produce sarin and after a triumphant test run in Matsumoto the increasingly dangerous cult decided to make a chemical plant. Suspicious that the Aum Shinrikyo committed the Matsumoto sarin incident the police began an investigation forcing the cult to make an effort to try to hide the evidence ("Seto"). Alas, that incident was not enough to deter them. Perpetrators pierced packages that give the impression of being lunch boxes or bottles filled with drinks. Sarin in its liquid form leaked out and changed the lives of many people ("Fletcher"). Two hundred and seventy-four people were hospitalized and at least seven lives were taken ("Seto"). Scores of members were punished by serving varying jail terms for doing that detestable act and five members were found to be deserving of death because of it ("Nerve Gas Attack on Tokyo Subway”). Japanese people were outraged that one cult lead to the murder of so many and newspapers flew off the shelves. Crimes of that nature simply did not happen amplifying the cults