One half-way sensible SGI member in the world

"So I assume by now, a number of people have seen the /r/sgiwhistleblowers group. It's devoted to people who are anti-sgi, which include people who have left SGI after being devoted members, and people who are still currently SGI who go there to rant and vent about SGI in general.

I've been on there recently, especially after 50K, and yes, I've learned the hard way that they are very fervent in their anti-SGI and anti-Ikeda beliefs. I feel like their concerns should be addressed, because although a lot of them are very fanatically against SGI, some are reasonable.

Some things they considered frustrating with SGI:

-Members are guilt-tripped into BSG shifts, contributions, meetings in general.

-Regular members don't get a voice within the upper levels of SGI, and their concerns and complaints aren't heard.

-They consider SGI to be an Ikeda cult, numerous reasons include claiming that a number of Ikeda's doctorates were bought, provided sources that Makiguchi and Toda weren't initially against the war, until nuclear weapons were dropped. Also provided sources that when Toda was leading SGI at a time, were strictly against all religions. I can provide these sources if anyone wants, but I didn't want to include them here in case of credibility.

-Constantly pestering members to attend meetings when they don't want to, including constantly calling, texting, and home visiting.

-False friendship. They feel a lot of leaders are very fake in their friendships, and speak especially friendly, only to end conversations with taking a BSG shift or offering home for meetings.

-Treating people as a number, like shakubuku quotas. This makes people seem insignificant and just another goal to achieve. People go rampant in trying to shakubuku, then when those people get their gohonzons, members completely forget about them.

Issues go beyond this, including conspiracies about Soka Gakkai laundering money, and all kinds of crazy things. Other than that, most complaints is about SGI being bad at religion.

A lot of these issues I've seen, and I would agree that sometimes members go a bit overboard and need to chill out. I just think members need to address these issues and think about what they're doing when speaking and interacting with their members. There are current members who are stressed with these very issues, on the sgiwhistleblowers site as we speak."