Asahara was a partially blind boy born into a very poor family in China. Throughout his entire life he had one solitary goal - to become a leader of some sort. This started from an early age, when he wou

At first this cult was to be a change from what Asahara felt was a grim situation in China to that of a Utopia. However, this got wildly out of hand almost immediately. First, Asahara went to the government to ask for "official religious corporation status." This gave him and his cult protection from taxes, from government, and from the law in general. They were free to do what they want, and this went to Asahara's head. He felt so confident in this new status that he had a longtime dream of his followed through. He "permanently silenced" a lawyer named Sakamoto and his family who had been fighting against the cult since its beginnings.

According to Marty Butz, a writer for a prominent occult magazine, "...perhaps still ambitious for leadership, Asahara realized his own divine appointment and religious call

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