We have evidence that SGI-USA started as a full-blown cult; can a cult ever become not-a-cult?

We've established all the cult symptoms except mass killings, including (but not limited to):

• Isolation

• Sleep deprivation

• Wheedling money

• Controlling members' sexuality

• Strictly authoritarian hierarchy - no elections

• Authority without accountability + accountability with no authority

• Fostering guilt and shame

Etc. etc. etc. List more and I'll link the examples.

Yet when we point this out to people who are now members of the "kinder, gentler" SGI-USA, they all say, "Well, those things aren't happening any more." Yet we still have evidence they are - SGI-USA leaders are still trying to claim ever more of members' free time for meetings and other SGI activities, for example.

I simply do not think it is possible for a full-on cult to ever "moderate" to the point that it is even benign (not harmful). I don't think it is possible for a cult to transform into something beneficial. Especially when it's focusing on someone like Ikeda to the exclusion of all else - that ain't healthy. There is no person in the entire world or history who would be healthy if someone were to make that person his sole focus.