Converse with Joe Republic and his stunning ignorance of basic historical events

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Do you think that the Ikkō-ikki were a natural or even inevitable result of the tenets of Jōdo Shinshū being applied to the political context of the Sengoku period, or were the religious aspects of the movement more incidental and used to obscure secular or even materialistic concerns?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I take back everything bad I've ever said about Joe's understanding of any humanities or social sciences discipline. This thread is gold.