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The Anticult
Isn't the bottom line that the priests didn't want to follow orders from the General "Dr." Ikeda?
Like King Henry VIII and the Pope.
The Pope would not follow orders, so the King fired the Pope, and made himself the Pope/Head of the Church of England.
Gen. Ikeda did the same thing. Fire those who won't take orders and submit, and then declare yourself President for life.
Then you call the shots, and collect all the money.
Of course, you have to demonize those Priests you are firing, by manufacturing crude propaganda and lies about them.
General Ikeda really a person who triggers feelings of disgust in those who look at his ugly behavior objectively.
Exactly. On pages 57 and 231 of this thread, we have accounts of how Ikeda, as a Young Men's Division member in the 1950's, led a group of young men in beating up an elderly priest named Ogasawara. Not exactly kind, enlightened Buddhist behavior. Page 207 of this thread discusses some of the Soka Gakkai's behavior in the 1970's. The Taiseki-ji priests were objecting because SGI wanted to change the prayer books, and make their own copies of the Gohonzon. Basically, Ikeda wanting to do what he wanted and no priest was going to tell him no, and also a deliberate act of provocation.
And don't forget that the High Priest would not allow the bronze bas-relief of Ikeda in swim trunks to be displayed at the Head Temple. Lord, what a thing to demand. Would even King Henry VIII have thought of telling a priest to display such an image of him in a church? Well, at least, Ikeda has not beheaded his wife, at least as far as we know.