"Soka Gakkai is nothing but a primitive spell group."

This is a quote from Hirotatsu Fujiwara's book, "I Denounce Soka Gakkai", which the Soka Gakkai was disturbed enough about to use its newly won political power via Komeito to lean on the publisher and attempt to stop its publication and then distribution. This was the source of the "publishing scandal" in which Soka Gakkai, utterly controlled by Ikeda, via its political arm Komeito, attempted to impose the first stages of fascism - censorship and trampling on freedom of the press.

”**Soka Gakkai, in a word, is nothing but a primitive spell group. **Don’t you agree? ‘Spells’ in various forms still remain in Japan. Poverty gives rise to such charms.

It is the same here in the US. The Pentecostal sect of Christianity, with its "Prosperity Gospel", yet its members are the poorest out of all the major sects of Christianity. What are they doin rong???

The moist soils of poverty which extensively remain in Japan have produced a mold, which is called Soka Gakkai.

The US has 3rd World-levels of poverty and the most inadequate "safety net" social welfare programs of any of the developed democracies. And the Republicans appear determined to increase poverty and suffering - is it to prop up declining Christianity which so many of them profess, since Christianity can only grow where there is poverty and suffering?? O_O

If we do not uproot the source of poverty, the mold of the second and third Soka Gakkai will appear, but this mold is harmful and must be cut off similarly. When mold spreads too far, all living things wither and fall like a huge tree which has been entwined in a parasitic plant.

Compromise is not permitted now. Please tackle the problem with courage. You will find many supporters from unexpected places and I think I am one of them.” (p. 272)

I think that "compromise" statement can be taken two ways - it's too late for compromise, as the problem has gotten way out of hand, and the Soka Gakkai refuses to compromise. Both are true.