Falun Gong is a "personality-drive cult"

The Asian Pacific Post, after tasting the fruit of their silence, decided to stand up and honestly report what we in the community already know - Falun Gong is a cult.

(Testamony from Ross Institute)

Li Hongzhi’s teachings also include the spinning "falun," which is a mystical "wheel of law" that he claims to be able to insert into his disciples’ abdomens telekinetically.

Such fantastic and exclusive claims about a leader fit the classic profile of a personality-driven cult.
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While Li Hongzhi talks about "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance," neither he nor his followers actually demonstrate any tolerance concerning critical questions or inquiry.

(RI also exposed Falun gong's racist teaching)

In Mr. Li’s world view, mixed-race people are part of a plot, contrived by the evil extraterrestrials. "By mixing the races of humans, the aliens make humans cast off gods," he told a gathering in Switzerland in 1998.