My question:
Is Shorinji Kempo practiced by human beings?
The Answer:
Yes it is.
The Future:
Your art will have splits, schisms, fragmentation, etc..
When?
It may take a few years, maybe a decade or two, but unless your art dies out - there will be fragmentation.
Get over it.
The separatists will then be accused of many things by the loyalists: outright fraud, historical revisionism, poor technique, or to borrow a favorite quote from another MA website about their former members leaving the parent organization:
"Dishonored Fallen Knights... who do not speak the Truth".
In fact, fragmentation will often have positive results, especially when related to growth.
My reasoning is not my passing judgment towards Shorinji Kempo; it is simply history and psychology on my side.
John McPartland
Well, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you! I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!