Religious Extremism

With violence embracing many religions and cultures throughout the Nation and World a widespread phenomenon is created, which afflicts all religions within our society. Extremism, religious fundamentalism, breeds terrorism, and constitutes an open door for all forms of extremism. It is a totalitarian movement, which denies and blocks all the virtues by which individuals can express their individually, through religion. “When we close our hearts to others, our eyes are closed to see the beauty …

…to be religiously based and very high intensity, controlling groups that have caused or are liable to cause loss of life among their membership or general public. The cult was found by Shoko Asahara in 1978 and its discovery eventually lead it to reach a peak of about twenty thousand members world wide. The extremist cults philosophy combines elements of Buddhism and Christianity, which was developed when Asahara traveled to the Himalayas to study these religions.