Falun-Gong Cult (法轮功)

By Xah Lee. Date: .

Falun-Gong (法轮功)

li-hongzhi floating on a lotus

Also of interest is Falun-Gong (法轮功). It teaches people to fly and nearing doomsday etc. Falun-gong is now also a multi-national octopus. It has its own publishing houses now, with over 10 languages, distributed free. And, as well as several websites with different domain names in over 10 languages. Usually with themes like Human-Rights or Justice and Torture. A interesting twist with falun-gong is that the USA politicians use it to do power struggle with China.

The Wikipedia's falun-gong page is constantly in flux, i suspect many falun-gongist actively edit Wikipedia, where, almost every paragraph contains a “citation/reference” linked to a article by one of falun-gong associated publisher.

See also: James Randi Educational Foundation, on falun-gong: http://www.randi.org/jr/08-03-01.html. Quote:

Li started out by changing his own birthdate to something more suitable for a deity. July 7th, 1952, was not an auspicious date, so he maneuvered local officials into giving him an I.D. card that says May 13th, 1951. Since Chinese tradition has the birthday of Buddha as the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, which is May 13th, this provided Li with a basis for divinity. His preposterous comic-book claims range from bringing all his disciples to fly in the sky, to the fact that all things are composed of water. He commands his followers to denounce all science, and to ignore doctors and medicine of all kinds. He says that he himself made his own grandparents. It goes on and on.

Li, now living comfortably in New York, supported by the wealth he has sucked from his disciples, is another nobody who seized an opportunity to become powerful and rich on the naivety of a populace. I differ with the government of China on political matters, but not on this humanitarian catastrophe.

法轮功,上吊
Li Youlin, a farmer from Chengren Village, Anshu Town, Dongliao County, .Jilin Province, was infatuated with “Falun Gong.” On May 21, 1999, he said to his wife: “Tomorrow is my master's birthday. I'll go and burn joss sticks for him.” On May 23, he was found to have committed suicide by hanging himself. 〔image source http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/china/1999/990912-falun-gong.htm〕

The one thing scary about falun-gong was that, another guy named Hong2 Xiu4quan2 (洪秀全, 1812 to 1864) started a cult in China called Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (太平天國). Hong claimed that he was the new Messiah and younger brother of Jesus Christ. This cult, caused a death from 20 million to 50 million. For context, World War II killed 55 million, and the Annihilation of American Indian is about 20 million. (all estimates are low estimates.) See Taiping Rebellion.

This article has been translated into Chinese, at http://www.kaiwind.com/ckxx/ywcz/201004/t109022.htm

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