These quotes came from the SGI website http://www.sgi-usa.org/memberresources/contributions/docs/District_Leaders_Encouragement_Guide.pdf

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As part of our member care efforts, new members joining after January 1, 2019 will be asked to wait one year before contributing to SGI-USA. The purpose is to ensure that members fully understand the Buddhist spirit of offerings, since offerings are an important part of Buddhist practice.

You mean the purpose is to ensure that THE PUSHY SGI SALES PEOPLE don't accidentally scare away a new member!!!

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In the future, they will be interviewed before making their first contribution by a Chapter through National leader who will share details about the spirit of contribution as encapsulated in the following passage:

Interviewed? To give a donation? You mean BRAINWASHED with this crap:

“Donations to support the Gakkai’s organizational activities represent offerings for the advancement of kosen-rufu. Faced with members’ growing insistence that they be allowed to help finance the organization, [Second Soka Gakkai President Josei] Toda sensed that the time had finally come to open the door to such a development. Still, Toda remained extremely cautious. He felt it imperative that finances for kosen-rufu derive from donations made with the utmost sincerity and purity of intention . . . . Financial contributions to the SokaGakkai were not the same as donations to other organizations, because it was essential that offerings for kosen-rufu be based on faith. As long as the contributors possessed such sincere and ardent faith, they would not fail to receive immeasurable benefit...” (The New Human Revolution, Vol. 4, 107-8)

Smooth move, Exlax. Very good ploy to make new members think you don't care at all about their money. Too bad SGI is just going to LOSE money because it seems that most new members drop out in less than a year anyway.