During the thousand years of the Age of the True Dharma following the Buddha’s extinction, many people observe the precepts and few break them. During the next thousand years of the Age of the Semblance Dharma, which follows the Age of the True Dharma, many violate the precepts and a few people do not accept any precepts. During the ten thousand years of the Latter Age of Degeneration, there are a few violators of the precepts, but many people do not accept any precepts. During the Age of the True Dharma, you should disregard those who violate the precepts or do not accept any and make offerings to observers of the precepts. During the Age of the Semblance Dharma, disregard those who do not accept any precepts and make offerings to the violators of the precepts. During the Latter Age of Degeneration, revere those who do not accept any precepts and make offerings to them as if they were Buddhas.

Across the three ages, however, we should never make offerings to those who slander the Lotus Sūtra regardless of whether they observe the precepts, violate them or disregard them. If we make offerings to slanderers of the Lotus Sūtra, three disasters and seven calamities will befall the country and people will certainly fall into the Hell of Incessant Suffering. A practicer of the Lotus Sūtra criticizing provisional sūtras is like a ruler admonishing his retainers, a parent admonishing his children, or a teacher admonishing his disciples. A practicer of provisional sūtras criticizing the Lotus Sūtra, on the contrary, is like a retainer punishing his lord, a child punishing his parent, or a disciple punishing his master.

Kyō Ki Ji Koku Shō, Treatise on the Teaching, Capacity, Time and Country, Writings of Nichiren Shōnin, Doctrine 3, Page 98-99