oh yep, i remember those quotes. it's funny, because i studied a LOT and i wanted to include my district in what i was reading, but they never wanted to study outside of the living buddhism/world tribune... i was always saying "lets study the lotus sutra" (if you're chanting "devotion" to it daily WHY would you not want to know whats in it???) everyone would be like "NO!" or just go silent, it was strange. i wonder if we had studied it, if people would have seen how bizarre it is and backed off.
it also was odd to me how people could pull so many "inspiring" messages from the gosho. i felt like i was just stupid because i could never interpret anything other than a bunch of rambling fundamentalism littered with metaphors that barely even made sense. and i read that shit every single day, highlighted and read all the little notes about each one. after about 6 months of that, i literally had to put it down and stop reading it because i was so sickened by all of the intolerance.
off-topic, but i kinda wonder if nichiren was even a real person honestly. how the hell did they get his letters? if he wrote letters to his followers and sent them off, how did anyone get access to them? did his followers all give his letters back after he died? did he just keep copies? i asked this question in a SGI Facebook group with 2000+ people and nobody could answer me. i'm sure its possible that nichikan or whoever went to all of the followers and asked for their letters but it's still confusing.
anyway, based off every buddhist teaching that is actually from the buddha, such violence and intolerance is so far from being buddhist. he taught kindness and compassion, he taught people to think for themselves and not even believe what he says unless they find that its the truth for themselves, he taught "my teachings are A way, not THE way"... who even wrote the lotus sutra? where did it come from?
all of those quotes you posted here make me want to laugh and vomit. it's so ridiculous, but it's also so sickening and saddening that there are so many vulnerable people out there that get sucked into this bullshit...