The Seven Damning Sins of Soka Gakkai-Komeito

Soka Gakkai And Komeito Should Be Separated

Most of the seven great sins of Soka Gakkai-Komeito stem from the fact that though Komeito claims to be a national political party for the public, they are actually a political party which exists for the special profit of one specific, religious group, Soka Gakkai.  By the increase in membership of Soka
Gakkai, the political power of Komeito expands automatically, and if such a tactic is in itself, speaking from the political point of view, an evil course, then I cannot avoid saying that it is desireable that the relationship between the two should be completely severed.
But, if Soka Gakkai-Komeito is cut apart and disjoined, the inner substance of Komeito would disappear.  This is because they have absolutely no political originality to appeal to the political consciousness of all social strata who are not members of Soka Gakkai.  If they remain as they are now, and develop as Siamese twins, leaving aside the (luestion whether or not this will take the form of a new style of fascism, as far as the system of democracy in Japan is concerned, it will be: "hyakugai atte, ichiri naki mono to naroo." (one hundred evils, not even one good.) It seems that this is a good prospect.
When one of the Siamese twins dies, the other must also die, and in the future there is the possibility that both will become envolved in some miserable common ruin.
"To Caesar, the things of Caesar". I think this should be Soka Gakkai's primary concern: that religious power return to religion's original mission.  This is why I strongly urge the dissolution of Komeito and a return to an organization such as the Komei Seiji Renmei (Clean Government League).
The maximum of political advancement by a religious power should be limited to standing for election in the Local Assemblies and the House of Councillors and developing their political opinions from the view point of their religion. If Komeito insists that unless they have a majority in the House of Representatives, and come to power, they will not be able to realize the ideal of obutsz' uzyogo, then it should be said that Soka Gakkai does not belong to the sphere of religion to take charge of man's spiritual life, and thus they should take
down their religious signboard.  It is necessary for them to state clearly where they stand.
If they say that they dissolve Soka Gakkai itself and become a propagandizing organization for the political group, Komeito, then the subject is another.  This as far as Soka Gakkai- Komeito is concerned would be putting the cart before the horse.  To the contrary, Soka Gakkai through it's original religious activities, working hard to indirectly purify politics, by this activity, should choose to follow the road toward the political realization of obutsu inyogo.