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Leader of Falun Dafa
doesn't recognize everyone's human rights
or even their right to be“human”
Posted in Falun Gong by Rick Ross
"Li Hongzhi," the founder and leader of Falun Gong also known as Falun Dafa,
has been repeatedly described as "homophobic" and as a "racist."
CultNews previously reported about the media meltdown Falun Gong experienced
in San Francisco concerning its leaders nasty pronouncements.
During the Bay area controversy a member of the San Francisco gay community
said, "I challenge any gay person in this city to get any Falun Gong
practitioner to state they do not agree with their master's belief. I have
never heard them refute what he has said. There is deception here."
What is it that the man called "Master Li" says that causes concern, which
his followers never refute?
Interracial marriage is one thing that seems to rile the religious leader,
but he saves some of his most harsh words for homosexuals.
Here are some quotes from Hongzhi as provided by the blog "…smell the
Kool-Aid…fun with cults".
Li Hongzhi: "Is homosexuality human behavior? Heaven created man and woman.
What was the purpose? To procreate future generations. A man being with a
man, or a woman with a womanit doesn't take much thought to know whether
that's right or wrong. When minor things are done incorrectly, a person is
said to be wrong. When major things are done incorrectly, it's a case of
people no longer having the moral code of human beings, and then they are
unworthy of being human…When gods created man they prescribed standards for
human behavior and living. When human beings overstep those boundaries, they
are no longer called human beings, though they still assume the outer
appearance of a human. So gods can't tolerate their existence and will
destroy them."Leading lights of the "Religious Right" like Jerry Falwell
might agree that homosexuality is a sin, but they would say "love the sinner
and hate the sin," allowing that gays are still "human beings." Hongzhi
however seems to question that status and he apparently just hates
instead.Li then goes on to tell why his work is so worthy.Li Hongzhi: "Let
me tell you why today's society has become how it is. It results from there
not being an upright Fa to keep human beings in check. This Dafa is taught
right in the most chaotic environment, at a time when no religion can save
people, and where the circumstance is that no god takes interest in people
anymore. The Fa is almighty. The best time periods wouldn't require such a
great Fa to be taught. Only in the worst time periods can the power of the
Fa manifest. There are other reasons, too."
"No religion can save people"?
"The Fa is almighty"?
Sounds like an "evil cult" leader making exclusive claims about himself now
doesn't it?
Hongzhi then says that he is actually something like a savior for gays.
Li Hongzhi: "Let me tell you, if I weren't teaching this Fa today, gods'
first target of annihilation would be homosexuals. It's not me who would
destroy them, but gods." And here is Hongzhi's piercing and some might
observe "homophobic" historical analysis.Li Hongzhi: "You know that
homosexuals have found legitimacy in that homosexuality was around back in
the culture of ancient Greece. Yes, there was a similar phenomenon in
ancient Greek culture. And do you know why ancient Greek culture is no more?
Why are the ancient Greeks gone? Because they had degenerated to that
extent, and so they were destroyed."Huh?
History doesn't quite reflect the downfall of Greece that way. It seems it
had something more to do with internal conflicts, the Macedonian and then
the Roman conquest.
Since the Macedonian ruler Alexander the Great was gay, does that mean a gay
caused the ultimate downfall of Greek gays?
And didn't someone once partly attribute the "Fall of the Roman Empire" to
sexual promiscuity and homosexuality too?
So does that mean that the gays got the great gay's empire for getting the
gays?
This is all getting too confusing, but perhaps Hongzhi enlightened by the
"Almighty Fa" can figure it out.
Did you ever wonder why there is so much suffering in the world?
Well, Master Li has all the answers.
Li Hongzhi: "Do you know why wars, epidemics, and natural and man-made
disasters happen in this world? They're precisely because human beings have
karma, and those events exist to remove it. No matter how wonderful a time
period may be in the future, there will still be wars, epidemics, and
natural and man-made disasters on earth. They are a way of eliminating karma
for people. Some people who have sinned can have their karma eliminated
through the death of the flesh body and suffering, and then they'll be free
of that karma when they reincarnate. Their lives don't really die and they
reincarnate again. But the karma that some people have accrued is too much,
in which case the fundamental elements of their existence will be implicated
and destroyed."
It seems that Hongzhi's preaching includes a little bit of Buddhism with an
ample dose of Armageddon-like "doom and gloom."
Maybe that's good for the guru business?
That is, it keeps people worried and looking for a little "karma relief."
Then they are more willing to be taken in by the man who supposedly speaks
for the "Almighty Fa" to save them since "no religion can save people" and
"no god takes interest."
Now back to some more of Hongzhi's homophobic rant.
Li Hongzhi: "Homosexuals not only violate the standards that gods set for
mankind, but also damage human society's moral code. In particular, the
impression it gives children will turn future societies into something
demonic. That's the issue. That kind of destruction, however, isn't just
about disappearing after they're annihilated. That person is annihilated
layer after layer at a rate that seems pretty rapid to us, but in fact it's
extremely slow in that time field. Over and over again, one is annihilated
in an extremely painful way. It's terribly frightening. A person should live in an
upright manner, living honorably like a human being.
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