1.Daisaku Ikeda 2.Nikken Abe 3.Bozo the Clown 4.Nichiren Daishonin 5.The Marquis D'sade

An SGI member on aol writes: 

"Of course temple members can and should be considered allies in the 
battle for Kosen-Rufu!  Isn't the Daishonin's mercy boundless enough to 
include everybody?  If we allow ourselves to become narrow-minded and 
divisive, we cannot help people.  On the other hand, the Daishonin's 
Buddhism is for the sake of the common people, and the demon called 
Dairokuten-no Mao lives in the guise of "authority."  Fact of the matter 
is this: priests are no longer needed.  If enlightenment is the act of 
facing the Gohonzon and chanting Daimoku, why do we need a priest to 
explain anything?  Human beings have been licking the feet of priests 
since the dawn of time, and to this day we are still the victims of the 
corrupt systems we ourselves create.  Isn't it time we changed it and 
overcame this weakness." 

               
His next post was as follows: 

"One further thought:  my concern for temple members is that because they 
reject President Ikeda, their practice must be much more difficult to 
maintain.  There is something very important in the mentor-disciple 
relationship.  To my experience, it is where the lifeblood of faith 
pulses, and to practice without it would seem to me at least to be "an 
endless, painful austerity."  There's a big difference between Sensei's 
scholarship and activities and a priest who's trying his best to be a 
"nice guy" to keep his game going." 

             
I'll begin the discussion with a series of questions: 

             
Question: Where in the Gosho can one find the 
mentor-disciple doctrine as preached by the SGI? 

             
Question: Which will come about first, the abolition and eradication of
nuclear weapons or the rapproachment of the SGI and the Nichiren Shoshu? 

             
Question: Are there any inconsistencies in the posters arguments? 

             
Question: Which is the greater autocracy, the SGI or the Nichiren Shoshu?

Question: Is President Ikeda a priest? 

             
Question: Did the Daishonin disparage all priests? Was the Daishonin a priest? 

             
Question: Should President Ikeda and Nikken be our mentors or should the Eternal
Buddha and Nichiren Daishonin. 

             
Question: The Daishonin refers to WHAT as an endless painful austerity and what
does the correct mentor-disciple relationship have to do with it?

Question: What does the lifeblood of faith have to do with the mentor-disciple relationship? 

Question: Does President Ikeda write all that is published under his name?

Multiple Choice questions:

Question 1. It is a painful austerity to have which one of the following as your mentor? 

             
               1.Daisaku Ikeda 
               2.Nikken Abe 
               3.Bozo the Clown 
               4.Nichiren Daishonin 
               5.The Marquis D'sade 

               6.all the above except Bozo the Clown

               7.all the above except Nichiren Daishonin

               8.none of the above. "Painful austerity" refers to something else

        
Question 2. Who trys hardest to be "a nice guy"? 

             
               1.The Nichiren Shoshu High Priest 
               2.Daisaku Ikeda
               3.Mr. Rogers 
               4.Bill Clinton 
               5.Al Capone 
               6.Aiman al Zawahiri 
               7.Big Bird