Q: Why is Falun Gong a cult?
A: Like many other cults in the world, Falun Gong
has
the nature of being anti-mankind,
anti-science and
anti-society. It practices
cult leader worship, spreads
fallacies,
exercises mind control, ruins human lives and
endangers society.
Like what all
cults did, Li Hongzhi, the leader of Falun
Gong, preaches "doomsday" and
"catastrophe for mankind".
He
said that the catastrophe could not be avoided. The
only way of escape is to believe in "Falun
Dafa". Only
he could save the
"incurable" mankind to another
"beautiful world". He also threatened the
practitioners
that they would become
ordinary people if they did not
practice Falun Gong. Then nobody would protect them and
the demons would come to take their
lives. Ordinary
people will inevitably go
to destruction. The body will
be destroyed,
and the soul will be lost too.
The most direct
social damage caused by Falun Gong is
destruction of the practitioners' lives and health. In
the guise of health-building, Falun
Gong uses suggestion
psychology, and
exaggerates its efficacy. It claims that
those
who sincerely practice Falun Gong will not fall
sick or encounter danger. It also says
that birth, old
age, disease and death are
karma retribution. Taking
medicine merely
presses back karma, so one can not cure
disease by taking medicine.
Deceived by such
fallacies, many Falun Gong
practitioners
refuse to take medicine or consult doctors
when they fall ill. According to statistics, up
to now,
over 1600 people in China have died of
committing
suicide or refusing medical
treatment. On January 23 of
this year, 7
Falun Gong practitioners set themselves on
fire at Tiananmen Square in order to achieve
"complete
perfection". This is
another monstrous crime committed
by
Falun Gong to its followers by mind control, and it
has further revealed its anti-mankind,
anti-society and
anti-science nature.
At the request of all people, the Chinese
government has
banned the Falun Gong cult
in accordance with the law in
order to protect
human rights and safeguard social
stability. This is also a great contribution to the
world anti-cult course.
Q: What does Li
Hongzhi really advocate?
A: The main
points of Li Hongzhi's Falun Dafa are as
follows: "The present mankind is full of evils".
The
doomsday is near and the mankind will
be destroyed soon.
Li Hongzhi is the sole
savior. Only he can lead his
followers to
"go up to higher levels" by practicing
Falun Gong, and finally become Buddha or
immortals. Thus
they can fly to the sky and
achieve "perfection" and
leave
the human race. As a result, the
"doomsday"
theory and cult
leader worship have become the ideals of
the
Falun Gong practitioners. One of them said, " I am
determined not to be a human being any
more. I must
cultivate myself into an
immortal." In order to realize
their
"ideal" of becoming immortals, some practitioners
were willing to follow any of Li
Hongzhi's instigations.
Q:
Falun Gong claims to believe in "Truth, Benevolence
and Tolerance". Why does the
Chinese government say it
deceives the
public?
A: Li Hongzhi advocates that
"Truth, Benevolence and
Tolerance"
is the supreme character of the universe. The
human being is the product of this character of
the
universe. But because the mankind
morality has declined
sharply, the bad
humans have fallen down to the center
of
the universe--- the earth. The earth has thus become
a garbage dump. He advocates "Truth,
Benevolence and
Tolerance" just for
the sake of saving the mankind.
This
fallacy advocated by Li Hongzhi is totally
hypocritical, because what he has done runs
counter to
"Truth, Benevolence
and Tolerance". For instance, he
said
that people should tell no lies, while he himself
changed his birthday from July 7, 1952 to May 13,
1951,
so as to have the same birthday as
Sakyamuni, the
founder of Buddhism.
He advocated "Benevolence" and
mercifulness, but he himself showed no sympathy
to those
Falun Gong practitioners who died of
refusing medical
treatment. He even denied
they were his followers. He
advocated
"Tolerance", but he did not tolerate any
different opinions on Falun Gong, and even
incited his
followers to besiege those
who have different opinions.
Recently, Li
Hongzhi even advocated "put down life and
death", "go beyond Tolerance", and
"Eliminate the
devils" in order to
incite the practitioners to fight
openly against the society and government. Can this be
called "Tolerance"? Li
Hongzhi also declared that Falun
Gong
does not seek profits. But a survey shows that from
May 1992 to the end of 1994, Li Hongzhi and his
followers collected more than three
million yuan by
running Falun Gong training
classes.
Q: Since Li Hongzhi's Falun Dafa is all
fallacies, why
there are so many
believers?
A: The majority of Falun
Gong practitioners did not see
its true nature
as a cult. They were deceived by some
people in the Falun Gong organization who had ulterior
motives. They practiced Falun Gong for
various reasons.
Some people believed that
it might help build up health
and cure
illness. Some people were deceived by Li
Hongzhi's "Truth, Benevolence and Tolerance" and
believed that it might help purify
minds. And some
people believed
in the fallacy that "the earth will
explode and the date will be decided by Li Hongzhi" due
to their low education level and
shortage of scientific
knowledge.
In the last two years, the Chinese
government and people
have made
unremitting efforts to educate, convert and
redeem the Falun Gong practitioners. Now the
overwhelming majority have waken up
and got rid of its
mind control.
Q:
Does Falun Gong really have the effects of overcoming
illness and building up bodies?
A: Some Falun Gong practitioners
claimed that they felt
much better and
their illness was gone after practicing
Falun
Gong. In fact, it was not due to any miraculous
effects of Falun Gong. People with common medical
knowledge will know that human beings
can build up
bodies by doing exercises,
adjusting mood, or
cultivating mind quietness.
Unlike the normal Qigong exercises,
Falun Gong uses
suggestion psychology and
exaggerates its efficacy.
Falun Gong
repeatedly stimulates the practitioners by
suggesting that it "gives them supernatural
perception"
and "the wheel of law
resolving constantly in the
abdomen".
As a result, some people with weak psycho
characters will have fantasy and fall into mental
distress. They may do some extremist
things and result
in tragedies. Up to now,
over 1600 people in China have
died of
committing suicide or refusing medical treatment
as a result of practicing Falun Gong. Besides,
over 650
people got mental distress, 11 people
killed others, and
144 people became disabled.
All these facts prove that
Falun Gong will
do great harms to practitioners'
physical and mental health rather than have any
miraculous effects.
Q: Why there are no
instances of death of Falun Gong
practitioners abroad, and in some countries it is even
praised as a peaceful, morality
improving spiritual
movement?
A: In foreign countries, Li Hongzhi dared not to
advocate his fallacies such as no
doctors and medicines
are needed for
illness. He also denied that he had said
such
words in China. He was afraid that the local
practitioners would accuse him if some of them
lost
lives. That might result in cracking
down by the foreign
governments, like what they
did to the "People's Temple"
and
"Branch Davidians." So, he transformed
Falun Gong
into a kind of Gymnastic
show. Hence some curious
foreigners take
Falun Gong as an exercise to build up
health. They can not understand why China has banned
Falun Gong and hold that the Chinese government
violated
human rights.
We
believe that Falun Gong's true nature will be exposed
to all when people know more about the
great harms it
has done to the thousands
of families in China and its
society.
Q:
What is the legal basis for maintaining Falun Gong as
an evil cult and banning it?
A: The Regulatory Rules for Social Groups of
China
stipulates that any social group
should make
registration before it is
established, and should abide
by the
Constitution, laws, legal regulations and state
policies. Social groups should in no way run
counter to
the basic principles in the
Constitution, cause harm to
the state and
public interests as well as the legal
rights and interests of other organizations and
citizens, or violate the social morality and
social
mode. The Falun Dafa
Research Society, without
registration in
accordance with the law, has conducted
such
illegal activities as advocating superstition and
fallacies, deceiving the people, provoking
incidents and
disturbing social order.
Hence, the Chinese government
decided to ban
Falun Gong in accordance with The
Regulatory Rules for Social Groups of China.
Q:
How does the Chinese Government deal with Falun Gong
practitioners?
A: Falun Gong is
an evil cult. However, most of the
practitioners are not aware of the true nature of this
cult organization. They have been
taken in by some
people with ulterior
motives in the organization and are
victims themselves. The government and people have made
great efforts to persuade, transform
and redeem them.
The overwhelming majority
of the Falun Gong
practitioners have now
waken up to their errors and are
free
from the mind control of this cult.
Once practitioners disengage themselves from
Falun
Gong organization and refrain from
taking part in any of
its activities,
they will not be held accountable by the
Chinese government. However, the few diehard elements
and obsessed practitioners who
engineer, organize or
incite
disturbances and poison ordinary people's mind in
the name of practicing health exercises will be
punished
according to law.
Q: Falun Gong
advocates non-violence and its
practitioners
held peaceful demonstrations. Why is this
considered violation of the law?
A:
Falun Gong practices cult leader worship, fabricates
and spreads heretic fallacies, exercises
spiritual
control on its practioners,
tramples on human rights,
ruins the lives
and endangers the society. On 22 July
1999,
in accordance with the demand by the people, the
Chinese government decided to outlaw Falun Gong.
The
Ministry of Public Security of the
People's Republic of
China issued a
public notice prohibiting the hanging or
posting anywhere of the banners, pictures, emblems
advocating "Falun Dafa" (Falun Gong)
and all activities,
including assemblies,
processions and demonstrations
etc., organized
by "Falung Gong" in the name of
"promoting the Dafa." By confusing and
poisoning
people's minds in the name
of "promoting and
safeguarding
Falun Dafa", Li Hongzhi induced a small
number of practitioners to openly challenge the
law,
disturb social order and damage social
stability. Their
acts are illegal. Recently,
some Falun Gong addicts,
bewitched by Li
Hongzhi, committed self-immolation at
the
Tiananmen Square. This incident has further exposed
the sinful nature of the so-called non-violence
and
peaceful demonstration as advocated by
Falun Gong.