Religion
Made by: Adriaan Raaijmakers
Class : 3MH6
Preface:
For this project we had to choose a religious sect and make it, describe what they think is salvation, make a conclusion and inclination your sources. The sect I chose is the Aum Shinrikyo sect. I chose this sect because of its enormous turn of events of chase and because I was curious how people can obtain so violent and to such an extreme way. Another pinnacle of the project was to describe Salvation and the way that your sect or cult saw or thought to reach Salvation.
Description of the sect:
The Aum Shinrikyo sect is mainly a Japanese sect although it has followers all over the world. Aum Shinrikyo stands for Supreme Truth. It was founded by (Chizuo Matsumoto, which was his official break before he changed it too)Asahara Shoko. Asahara Shoko moved to Tokyo in 1977, at that place his interest in religion begun. Through his urge for reliance he joined a group called Agonshu which was a fresh religion that thought bad karma could be removed by dint of suffering. His first few followers came from a yoga class, which he and his wife attended. In 1986 he received enlightment while he was in the Himalayan Mountains. When he came back from the Himalayas in 1987 he changed his pull in from Chizuo Matsumoto to Asahara Shoko.
After he did that, he named his group Aum Shinrikyo. Aum stands for powers of destruction and humanity in the universe in Sanskrit, Shinrikyo means teaching of the authoritative truth. As the name suggests the goal of Aum Shinrikyo is to teach and larn the truth about the creation and destruction in the universe. In the year 1989 the group tried to register itself as a religious Corporation, that request was not granted. Aum Shinrikyo responded with demonstrations,
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