I’ve seen some references to Falun Gong being against interracial marriages, but I am wary of internet sources about any group that the Chinese gov’t is against (I see people I suspect of being paid posers online a lot).
If Falun Gong is against interracial marriage, it’d be something handy for the Chinese gov’t to point out to erode western support against their persecution, and if they aren’t and it’s a lie, it’s a great rumor to spread.
It’s a notoriously racist organisation and is unquestionably against interracial marriage (and today’s hot button topic, gay marriage). It believes that interracial kids can’t go to heaven without the personal intervention of its founder, indeed (because different races go to different heavens). In fact the races mixing are evidence of something akin to the end times.
One source: THE WORLD: Rooting Out Falun Gong; China Makes War on Mysticism - The New York Times
So in other words, I don’t have to lose a lot of sleep if those particular beliefs are surpressed.
It’s strange because I’ve asked in if this is true on pro-Falun Gong youtube videos and all the commentators claimed that I was being fed propoganda.
Simple Linctus has referenced dated and rather uninformed information regarding Falun Gong’s teachings on mixed marriages. As a mixed race person (Asian and European), I have never been ridiculed or told I am unable to goto heaven. Many Falun Gong couples are mixed (Chinese and Westerner) and have mixed race children. Some Falun Gong teachings may be critical of mixed race marriages, but the actual teaching from the founder Li Hongzhi during 1999 in Sydney is as follows:
Question: Teacher, would you tell us what the interracial children are all about?
Master: The issue of the interracial children I have just mentioned has told mankind a heavenly secret, but it is not that we would do anything. I said that I have done something even greater in the sense that I can also save a person of mixed blood, but I can only save him in this period of time. Though oriental people and Westerners all live on earth, man does not know that there is something separating the East and the West. It is well known that oriental people believe in the so-called “nine”. They like the sound of it, which implies everlasting. “Eight” is pronounced as “fa”, implying making a fortune. These kinds of things can indeed have a little bit of effect in the East, such as geomantic omen telling or landscape analysis, etc. But when applied in the West, they appear to be ineffective and do not work. They do not work with the white people. Then again, the so-called astrology or some phenomena believed by the white people do not work with the oriental people either. Some people think that they work. That is because you think they work. In fact, they don’t. Why is it then? It is because the white people’s biosphere has its special physical matter formed in its own dimension while the oriental people’s biosphere has the special matter made up with their life. Such things run through the makeup of one’s life. Thus, the two sides are not the same. After races are mixed up, you will find one’s child born to be an infant of mixed blood. However, there is a partition in the middle of this child’s life. If it is separated, he will be physically and intellectually incomplete or a person with an incomplete body. Modern science also knows that it is getting worse one generation after another. It would be like this. Of course, if such a person wants to practice cultivation, I can help, and I can take care of it. It cannot be done to a non-practitioner.
That’s revolting.
edit: So you joined to make your one and only post defending Falun Gong as non-racist, followed by incredibly racist drivel coming straight from your founder that is even worse than Simple Lictus said, and you call his information “dated and rather uninformed”? It would be better for your cause if non-racist people like myself who might be sympathetic towards the oppression of Falun Gong in China DIDN’T see the racist garbage they actually belive.
I believe this is heading for another forum.
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rogerbox, if you’re going to ask a question like this in GQ, keep the side commentary out of it. If you want to criticize the group, take it to an appropriate forum.
Colibri
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Actually, I’m going to close it. You can start another thread in Great Debates or the Pit if you want to pursue the discussion further.