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Aum Shinrikyo
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Aum Shinrikyo
A Japanese religious movement founded in 1984 by Shoko Asahara, which is a composite belief system based on Asahara's idiosyncratic interpretations of yoga, Buddhism, Christianity, and Nostradamus. Aum gained international notoriety in 1995 when it carried out a sarin gas attack in the Tokyo subway system that killed 12 people
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In the aftermath of violent tragedies at Jonestown, Waco and in the Tokyo underground, involving the People's Temple Sect, the Branch Davidians and Aum Shinriko, we have grown suspicious of people who set themselves up as gurus and demand slavish discipleship from their followers.
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