• @nutomicA
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          33 years ago

          falun gong was started in the 90s as a scam martial arts/exercise movement. There are a ton of similar but smaller quack qigong cults that was started at around the same time. Initially, the Chinese government supported these because they were thought of as a harmless way to get old people out and exercising.

          falun gong is anti-medicine, telling cult members to avoid going to the hospital when sick, leading to deaths. It teaches that there is a “falun” or “law wheel” inside the body, leading some sick cult members to attempt to dig it out, leading to deaths. It is a doomsday cult, and believes only master li can save the cult members from the coming apocalypse with super natural powers. It is against homosexuality and race-mixing, saying mix race babies are evil and is a plot by aliens, which is super offensive to western liberals (in addition to the recent fervent support of Trump)

          Eventually a physics professor He Zuoxiu started writing articles denouncing these qigong frauds for what they are, including publishing an article in an obscure science magazine called “Science and Technology for Youth” criticizing falun gong in 1999. The falun gong saw this and was outraged, and they staged an unauthorized 10,000 people barricade of the central government offices demanding that the central government apologize, silence He Zuoxin, and give falun gong legal recognition.

          from here

          • @vis4valentineOPM
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            63 years ago

            Sounds like the exact kind of cult that i hate

            • @nutomicA
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              33 years ago

              It seems like every cult is generally hated. I have never heard about any exception.

              • @vis4valentineOPM
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                23 years ago

                People who are in cults often seen to point out other groups as cults, but fail to recognize cultish behavior in their own groups. And many people defensa cult like JW or Mormons because “i know somebody who is and they seem to be nice people”