aquila0altaire t1_j26h4x0 wrote on December 30, 2022 at 12:21 AM

Oh, please don't spend your money or time on it. It's just political propaganda with heavy anti-china sentiment. They are very much banned in China, because their cult-like rhetoric of anti-vax, anti-modern medicine, and faux spiritualism/daoism have harmed many people. China is very against religious practices in general for this very reason - religions give birth to zealots, so it's unsurprising they got banned.

And the touting of traditional Chinese dances and culture as "China before Communism" is complete utter crap. China still values many aspects of artistic expression from old cultural values - traditional dance, music, art, etc. They're not showing you ANYTHING new or groundbreaking.

As someone who lost family members to this cult, I ask people to please stop supporting them in the name of "open-mindedness and democracy".

aquila0altaire t1_j291vhc wrote on December 30, 2022 at 3:08 PM

https://thegrayzone.com/2019/09/30/reports-china-organ-harvesting-cult-falun-gong/

The user below needs to stop spreading this fake news of organ harvesting. It was spread by the cult from the beginning and they have a history of spreading misinformation to make themselves seem like perpetual victims.

Dogmeat411 t1_j28gxic wrote on December 30, 2022 at 12:01 PM

They are also upset because China arrested many of their members and literally harvested their organs. Look it up. I watched a falun Gong member get arrested in Beijing in the early 2000s- one of the scariest things I've seen. 5 guys grabbed her, held her over their heads and literally threw her into the back of a waiting van. I'm not a supporter of the group, but they are not making up what they say about the chinese government.