招遠(yuǎn)全能神殺人案在煙臺市中級人民法院開庭審理。同日，英國《每日電訊報》發(fā)表駐北京記者馬爾科姆穆爾文章《中國最激進(jìn)的邪教》。穆爾記者采訪了兩家全能神受害家庭成員，并揭露了全能神的邪教本質(zhì)。
這是中國新年后的一天，28歲的計算機(jī)科學(xué)專業(yè)畢業(yè)生彭麗娟離家出走加入了中國最激進(jìn)的邪教。她的丈夫彭寶順說：“我回到家發(fā)現(xiàn)汽車在，她的衣服和身份證以及其他東西都在，但她卻失蹤了?！?span lang="EN-US">
這對夫婦新婚才一年，很少吵架。但七個月后，彭寶順再也沒有妻子的任何音訊。
彭寶順夫婦所在的山東省，是邪教大紅龍（全能神）總部所在地，全能神聲稱一名40多歲的女子楊向斌，有時候也叫鄧閃電，是耶穌的復(fù)活化身。
全能神教會仍然聲稱招遠(yuǎn)麥當(dāng)勞事件“充滿了謊言及可疑”。全能神教會頭目楊向斌以及她的情人、邪教創(chuàng)始人、物理教師趙維山持假護(hù)照以政治避難為由滯留在美國。如今，趙維山和楊向斌幕后操縱了一個擁有上百萬成員的組織團(tuán)體，他們通過殘忍的方式招聘發(fā)展成員，特別針對家庭主婦和中國國內(nèi)基督教成員。
彭先生向記者表示，他看到過一些全能神的資料，剛開始看就像正常的基督教，沒有什么異常，但仔細(xì)讀下去，就會看到他們宣揚楊向斌就是全能神。他說，他們的教義簡單明了，就是讓你一遍又一遍重復(fù)，你必須得服從“神”，聽她的，不能有任何異議。一旦你想退出就會遭到恐嚇威脅。六個月后，一名新成員就會被洗腦加入教會。
全能神教會，也被稱作東方閃電，有一個非常華麗的中英雙語網(wǎng)站，上面有專業(yè)制作的視頻，最近甚至在《紐約時報》做了一個雙頁廣告。
今年6、7月間美國發(fā)出一份22頁的全能神簡介，簡介中該邪教領(lǐng)導(dǎo)宣揚“選民”應(yīng)該時刻準(zhǔn)備“犧牲自己的生命”，他們的最終目標(biāo)是殺死共產(chǎn)黨（他們稱為“大紅龍”）。如果教徒殺死大紅龍共產(chǎn)黨員，“大紅龍的靈魂才不會附在他們身上?！?span lang="EN-US">
據(jù)中國國家媒體報道，中國政府一直在慢慢地掌握該邪教的規(guī)模，但是麥當(dāng)勞事件發(fā)生后，中國警方已逮捕了超過1000名的邪教成員。目前，許多全能神教徒已轉(zhuǎn)入地下，留宿在中國農(nóng)村的“寄宿家庭”。邪教領(lǐng)導(dǎo)們作出指示說：“每個教區(qū)都要確保安全。每個人都要隱藏起來，這種情況也許會持續(xù)到十月。假如當(dāng)?shù)匦蝿萏貏e差的，可以隱藏在周邊城市。”
北京汽車配件廠的工程師齊建國向記者表示，教會新成員90%都是婦女，許多都是有朋友和家人介紹入教的。齊先生說：“我妻子一直很聽她母親的，所以她媽一叫，她就入教了。”齊先生的妻子在今年年初拋棄了他和他們5歲的兒子，加入邪教組織：“你可以看到，這個邪教和基督教相差十萬八千里，基督教是宣揚家庭的重要性。誰會讓一個母親丟下自己的親骨肉?。俊饼R先生表示他的情況只是成千上萬個深受全能神其害案例之一：“單單一個北京市就大概有3萬個類似我這樣被全能神搞的妻離子散的家庭。”
他說：“全能神就像一個金字塔，底層人員不知道上層人員的姓名，這個組織的目的就是斂財，教徒必須給教會捐款?！?span lang="EN-US">
他還補(bǔ)充，多年來，全能神從原先針對農(nóng)村地區(qū)未受過教育的農(nóng)民，逐步轉(zhuǎn)變對象，針對一些受過高等教育的人群，山東有一個女教徒是研究生學(xué)歷，廣州有一個特警也加入了全能神，被領(lǐng)導(dǎo)發(fā)現(xiàn)后入獄三年。
一位不愿透露姓名的揚州私營業(yè)主，現(xiàn)年31歲，曾經(jīng)加入過全能神，她向記者表示當(dāng)初加入全能神也是受一個好友的勸說：“該教會的策略是慢慢引誘你，就像在學(xué)校上課一樣。他們告訴我們相信上帝有三個步驟，首先是信約瑟，然后是基督，最后就是那個轉(zhuǎn)世女基督楊向斌。他們要求我們?nèi)ジ淖兏嗳说男叛?，否則上帝會不高興。這些聚會都是由“老師”帶領(lǐng)，像我一樣的新成員不能詢問他們?nèi)魏嗡饺说膯?/span>題。我連我老師的真實姓名都不知道，只知道叫小紅。”
她表示自己入會后，感到越來越焦慮：“晚上一個人的時候特別害怕?！弊詈蠼?jīng)過丈夫的勸說，她終于離開了教會。
但是，彭先生和齊先生表示，他們的妻子自從加入全能神后，對其他的事情包括工作都失去了興趣，把全部精力都用在網(wǎng)上觀看邪教視頻。彭先生說：“她行蹤很神秘，不允許別人查看她的手機(jī)，到了晚上會將手機(jī)放在枕頭下，基本停止了所有的工作，全部時間都用在了邪教網(wǎng)站?！?/span>
英文鏈接： http://www.telegraph.co.ukews/worldnews/asia/china/11046155/Inside-Chinas-most-radical-cult.html
Inside
It was the day after Chinese New Year when Peng Lijuan, a 28-year-old computer science graduate, ran off to join
"When I got home, I found our car there, and all her clothes, her ID card, all her belongings, but she was missing," said her husband Peng Baoshun.
The couple had only been married for a year and rarely fought, said Mr Peng. Seven months later, he has not seen or heard from her since.
Today, five members of the cult will go on trial in Yantai, a seaside city in
No one intervened to stop the killing, which was caught on smartphone cameras, as Zhang Lidong, an unemployed salesman, three of his children and his partner tried to enlist the woman and then bludgeoned her to death when they failed.
"She was a monster," he later said on television. "She is an evil spirit. We are not afraid of the law. We have faith in God."
The
After being put on a wanted list by the Chinese police 14 years ago, Yang Xiangbin and her lover, the founder of the cult and a former physics teacher Zhao Weishan, travelled to the
Today, they mastermind an organisation with as many as a million members and which is on a ruthless recruitment drive, especially targeting housewives and members of
"I have seen some of their teaching material," said Mr Peng. "It begins just like normal Christianity, with no difference at all. But when you get more involved, they introduce the theory of [Mrs Yang] being 'Almighty God'."
Mr Peng said the teachings are straightforward. "They just want you to repeat over and over that you obey 'God', listen to her, and not fight back. And there are threats for those who think of quitting. After six months, a new member can be brainwashed."
The Church of Almighty God, which is also known as Eastern Lightning, boasts a slick website in both Chinese and English, professionally produced videos, and even recently took a double-page advertisement in The Times newspaper.
In 22 pages of instructions sent from the United States in June and July, the heads of the cult preached that the "chosen ones" should be ready to "sacrifice their lives" and that their ultimate goal is to kill the Communist party, referred to in their teachings as "the Great Red Dragon".
If cultists murder Communist party members "the spirit of the Great Red Dragon will no longer possess them," according to the material.
The Chinese government has been slow to grasp the scale of the cult, but since the McDonald's attack in May the police have arrested over 1,000 of its members, according to state media.
As a result, many members have gone underground, staying with "host families" in the Chinese countryside.
"Every parish must secure its perimeter," said the instructions from the cult leaders. "Everyone should keep hiding, maybe until October. If the situations in certain cities are particularly bad, you should hide in a neighbouring city."
In
"My wife was always very respectful of her mother, so when she asked her to start going, she did," said Mr Qi, whose wife abandoned him and their five-year-old son earlier this year.
"You can see how far from Christianity this cult is. Christianity preaches that family is important. Who would tell a mother to leave behind their child?"
Mr Qi is part of a network of thousands of family members who use the internet to share their stories. "There must be 30,000 families in
"From what people say, the cult is like a pyramid and the members at the bottom do not know the names of the levels above. The purpose is to collect money. They have to give donations," he said.
He added that the cult, which for many years has recruited uneducated Chinese in the countryside, is changing its focus. "They are now targeting educated members. There is one woman who joined in
One 31-year-old former member of the cult, who owns a small company in the eastern city of
"The strategy is to slowly draw you in. It is like taking classes in school. They told us there are three steps to believing in God. First you believe in Joseph, then in Christ, then in the female reincarnation of Christ."
"They asked us to convert more people or God would be upset. The meetings were led by 'teachers'. New members like me could not ask any questions about their personal life. I only knew my teacher as Little Red. I did not even know her real name."
The woman said she had quit after feeling herself become more and more anxious about life. "At night I would always feel scared when I was alone," she said. Her husband eventually persuaded her to quit.
But both Mr Peng and Mr Qi saw their wives gradually lose interest in their work and devoted their lives to watching videos online.
"She was very mysterious, always keeping secrets and never allowing anyone to see her mobile phone, hiding it under her pillow at night," said Mr Peng. "She basically stopped working, just spent her time on the internet".
However, both men dismissed some of the wilder rumours circulating about the cult; that members have kidnapped priests and that they blackmail them after seducing them into orgies.
"There may be some extreme cases," said Mr Qi. "But basically the members are good in their heart."