Overview

Leader: Chinese martial arts master Li Hongzhi, who founded Falun Gong in 1992.

Formal name: Falun Dafa (Great Law of the Dharma Wheel).
Informal name: Falun Gong (Dharma Wheel Practice).

The Dharma Wheel ''is described by Mr. Li as a miniature of the cosmos that he says he installs telekinetically in the abdomens of all his followers, where it rotates in alternating directions, throwing off bad karma and gathering qi. Many Falun Gong adherents say they can feel the wheel turning in their bellies'' [source]

Billed as an exercise practice, Falun Gong is in essence a quasi-religious movement that engages in occult practices. The movement denies being a religion, but does claim that it is subjected to religious intolerance and religious persecution.

Falun Gong's founder, who promotes racism, has told Western reporters that humanity will soon be wiped out, that space aliens are on Earth trying to replace human beings with clones and that he is invested with supernatural powers allowing him to move through dimensions.

From this link... http://www.apologeticsindex.org/f02.html

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I fail to see how apologeticsindex.org has anything to do with a peaceful meditation practice's float winning an award in a very prestiges West Coast parade...

At the end of the parade some people in the crowd were holding pro-religious banners with a slogan like "Got Christ?!, its HELL without him!" One "religion" cannot judge other religions against itself...fairly, religions are designed to be biased, thereby protecting themselves from foreign ideas, I think its perfectly reasonable for religions to want to protect themselves from contamination, but when they start dishing out codemnations and judgements of other religions, they have lost their focus they should exist to help people understand and practice morality, not condemn others.

Li Hongzhi is not the first human being claiming to be able to "move through dimensions" due to his own developed supernatural powers, this is a very common theme throughout ancient chinese history. People who claimed to have cultivated the Tao (usually in the mountains) have been reported to have all forms of abilities ranging from teleportation, immortality, the ability become invisible, and the ability to change one form of matter into another (etc...). If one wishes to dismiss all of these as legends, then it presents many problems with debating history/folklore.

Before the Falun Gong was banned the Communist Party praised Falun Gong because they were saving billions of dollars a year on healthcare...because an estimated 100 million people *(this was an estimate by the CCP, Falun Gong does not require membship/money, so the true number was unknown.) were practicing Falun Gong at parks all around China every morning of every day. Falun Gong is based around two hours of meditation/slow graceful movements, my bias is showing, BUT OF COURSE things like this well show an improvement in peoples health. I base this opinion on being a massage therapist for almost 3 years and seeing the difference of techniques designed to relax a person can have on health, both physical and pyschologicaly.

What if humanity is facing some giant problem? It is not emphasized in the practice, and there is much more "secular" and "truly religious" groups producing programming on the possibilities of a global plague, interstellar collision, worldwide earthquakes/tsunami's, solar flares/coronal mass ejections, one world government, new world order (etc....etc...etc...) causing huge damage to human life on planet earth. Lao Tzu said "A man hearing the Tao in the morning can die in the evening. Those believing the universe is based of "Truth-Compassion-Tolerance" need not fear death, as life is truly temporary.

Many religions do not endorse homosexuality, does that mean they should advocate the destruction of homosexuals? Of course not! Falun Gong requires all those who truly practice to remain abstinent until married. For thousands of years governments and countries have not recognized/allowed homosexual marriage. The bulk of the text's were written in China to Chinese people during the year 1994, gay marriage was not recognized/allowed by the Chinese Communist Party.

Scientist's have theorized that if an event such as "the big bang" happened, how could it have only created one time-space? The reality of the cosmos is still a mystery to modern science, many ancient Chinese physics have been validated by modern science. The people's of the Amazon have for centuries drawn images bearing undeniable similarities to what molecular biologists now call DNA.

Tom Cruise and John Travolta: actors who are scientology members.

Li Hongzhi: One of many Qigong Masters in China, His Qigong caught on because he instructed His Disciples in how to improve their moral character, and this caused the practice to bring health and healing to its adherents http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/136/ . The China Institute of Qigong studied the Qigong Masters at the time Falun Gong was made public. They measured Li Hongzhi and found him to possess great energies in his bodies similiar to that found on other Qigong Masters bodies.

Unlike scientology all the works of Li Hongzhi are widely available and free of charge (www.falundafa.org). There is no membership or "donation". Many people may want to critize some parts of it without understanding it, or just reading it for the purpose of criticism. Thanks. I'm not going to do research on your belief system in order to find what I judge as flaws and critize you about them.

Christians looking at other belief systems; I thank you for your input, but please don't judge something you know nothing about by your current belief in Christ. I understand you want me to love God. Thanks. I don't believe all the souls of China and India who tried to be good people in the names of their religions (Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism).

I don't think a blog is a place for a dogmatic belief debate.

Back to the original purpose of this blog...Look at the top video!! Look at how nice that float looked! Our marching band was AWESOME We won an award! *YaY*

I wouldn't mind talking to you about belief systems, except I know your just going to tell me I'm going to go to hell if I don't accept Jesus into my heart. I'll pass on that.

I'm sure you think everyone who isn't a Christian is going to be burning in hell. I'm glad you are so confident in your religion. You won't get convert by telling them "believe; OR ELSE!" and if they do join because of you telling them that, then they probably aren't true believers and are just there for "fire insurnace"

I thought all this was about Compassion(aka:forgiveness)

I think some people refuse to admit that you can believe Jesus rose from the dead without worshiping him.