One of the Major Characteristics of a Cult Is: Falsity

Now, "Falun Dafa" has been declining, with only a few believers and more and more followers realizing their errors and mending their ways. Why? Because it is a pseudoscience and a cult.

As compared with science and truth, the most important characteristic of pseudoscience and cults is one word: "falsity."

As for science, the experimental results that prove a science may be repeated. However, when the pseudoscience of a cult is repeated, many loop-holes appear. For instance, what is the "Wheel of Law" ("Falun") in Li Hongzhi's "Falun Dafa"? He should present an entity or a figure. However we are afraid that Li Hongzhi himself does not know what "Falun" is. Whenever people want to test "Falun Gong" through scientific experiments to see what it really is, Li Hongzhi always plays the same old trick, jumping from one subject to another. When unable to avoid giving an answer, he defames science, saying that today science is not science at all, or science is "evil."

Science has a positivist spirit, but pseudoscience, superstition and cults absolutely do not. When anyone wants to test a thing that does not exist at all, the cat will be let out of the bag, and Li Hongzhi and his followers will come to their end. When people want to get to the bottom of the matter, they will come out with all kinds of fallacies. Examples of this have been found when people have wanted to test "Falun Gong." On these occasions, Li Hongzhi would say: If this is done, the power achieved by practicing "Falun Gong" will disappear, and taking medicines will make "your practice useless."

Science also needs the spirit of incredulity. However, superstition, pseudoscience and cults only talk big and tell lies. If anyone has some doubt (rather than a serious doubt), Li Hongzhi would try to turn his or her head, saying: "You don't have enough power," or "Your heavenly eyes have not opened yet," thus making the person feel confused. The more confused he or she is, the better. For instance, "Master" Li always says to the people who ask him for "law" and "power": "You have not achieved enough power, so you won't understand what I say." A few words-"You don't understand"-will immediately throw the person into a labyrinth.

In addition, science also needs reason. However, superstition, pseudoscience and cults make use of people's irrational blindness to reach the founder's evil purposes. For instance, Li Hongzhi often says irresponsibly that people will become "Buddhas" or "immortals" through practicing "Falun Gong," thus making those who are afraid to deal with the natural law of birth, age, illness and death vie with each other to jump into Li Hongzhi's traps while he himself laughs in his sleeve.

However, you cannot wrap fire in paper: Lies will finally be laid bare, and people will eventually see through all false things.

(Compiled by New Star Publishers, Aug., 2000)