坦白地說(shuō)，“法輪文化”一詞乃筆者自造，您不用說(shuō)在《現(xiàn)代漢語(yǔ)詞典》里，即便《辭?！防镆舱也坏?。但是，您能找得到“黨文化”嗎？法輪功能生造一個(gè)“黨文化”，筆者也還他一個(gè)小小的公道，借彼“發(fā)明”，權(quán)且用之，把由法輪功“價(jià)值觀為基礎(chǔ)所支撐而成的思維方式、話語(yǔ)系統(tǒng)及行為模式”暫稱“法輪文化”。
不過(guò)，筆者可沒(méi)有法輪功那種本事，要“解體”什么文化，自以為對(duì)“法輪文化”只能解析一二。一則，本人乃一介“常人”，非上天之神的“肉身”，不可能“具大神通”，想解體誰(shuí)就解體誰(shuí)；二則，沒(méi)有那么多閑功夫去通讀味同嚼蠟的《轉(zhuǎn)法輪》，又不能像法輪功那樣聚集一幫人馬撰寫大塊“解體”文章，只能點(diǎn)到為止，管窺一豹而已。
一、“法輪文化”是造神文化
法輪功在其近期大作“解體黨文化”里用大量篇幅攻擊中共的無(wú)神論，引經(jīng)據(jù)典地說(shuō)明“頭上三尺有神靈”，甚至把中國(guó)古代“盤古開(kāi)天地”的神話、封建帝王“君權(quán)神授”的說(shuō)法也用于其攻擊無(wú)神論的佐證。其實(shí)，信神或不信神是信仰問(wèn)題，如果法輪功只是信神，那也無(wú)可厚非，絕不會(huì)遭封殺。中共也并非封殺信仰，反而是尊重宗教信仰，只不過(guò)提倡無(wú)神論。不能說(shuō)凡不信法輪大法的人就是“魔”，無(wú)神論者就是“邪惡”吧，那不是中世紀(jì)歐洲專制宗教的翻版嗎？法輪功攻擊中共無(wú)神論的目的，無(wú)非是想說(shuō)明他們被取締是遭迫害，那也用不著在有神無(wú)神上大做文章。因?yàn)榉ㄝ喒Ρ蝗【喌母驹虿辉谛叛?，而在其反科學(xué)、反人類、反社會(huì)的本質(zhì)上，在于其殘害生命、危害社會(huì)的行為上。
再說(shuō)，法輪功信神嗎？信的什么神？我們知道，佛教以佛為神，基督教以上帝為神，伊斯蘭教以安拉為神，道教稱老子為“道德天尊”，法輪功以誰(shuí)為神呢？他們的在世教主李洪志。傳統(tǒng)宗教信仰的神都在天上，或在心中，唯獨(dú)法輪功信仰的神在人間，是活生生的可以對(duì)信徒發(fā)號(hào)施令的肉身，這不令人深思嗎？說(shuō)白了，法輪功不是信神，而是造神。
法輪功組織編寫的《李洪志先生小說(shuō)》中說(shuō)他“８歲得上乘大法，具大神通，有搬運(yùn)、定物、思維控制、隱身等功能……了悟宇宙真理，洞察人生，預(yù)知人類過(guò)去、未來(lái)?！崩詈橹?999年在澳大利亞答記者問(wèn)時(shí)也公然大言不慚地說(shuō)，“有人說(shuō)我是神，有人說(shuō)我是佛，有人管我叫大師……我封不住一個(gè)人的嘴”，儼然以神自居。
這位法輪功造的“神”，并不以登上神位為滿足，他還要壓倒眾神，解體眾神，獨(dú)占鰲頭。李洪志在2007年紐約法會(huì)講法時(shí)說(shuō)，“釋迦牟尼傳了法，耶穌也講了他的道，其實(shí)他們講的只是給人其中一個(gè)元神、副元神聽(tīng)的，而人這邊是明白不了的，就使其修煉中表面的人與主元神無(wú)法改變。人們講釋迦牟尼佛如何如何傳法，他們只是在奠定人類的文化”，“其實(shí)就是給人奠定人對(duì)神認(rèn)識(shí)的這樣一個(gè)思想過(guò)程，奠定人對(duì)神認(rèn)識(shí)的文化。不然的話，我今天出來(lái)傳法，你們不知道什么是神，不知道什么是佛、什么是道，我這法真的很難講。”似乎釋迦牟尼、耶穌的天職就是給李洪志鋪路，為他的傳法奠定基礎(chǔ)，真是敢冒天下宗教之大不違。更有甚者，李洪志在其《全面解體三界內(nèi)一切參與干擾正法的亂神》經(jīng)文中說(shuō)，“長(zhǎng)期以來(lái)，舊勢(shì)力及三界內(nèi)一切起負(fù)作用的亂神，一直在起著很壞的作用”，“無(wú)論它們以什么外形存在，無(wú)論它們有形無(wú)形，無(wú)論它們什么層次，無(wú)論它是誰(shuí)的形像，都全面解體、清除。”也就是說(shuō)，凡是不認(rèn)可法輪功，不認(rèn)可李洪志這個(gè)“神”的，不管何教何派均在清除之列，惡狠之心溢于言表。如此“李大師”，不用說(shuō)無(wú)神論者，即便宗教界人士，誰(shuí)會(huì)承認(rèn)他是神？充其量，他的神位也就是法輪功的“內(nèi)部職稱”而已。
法輪功的造神文化還表現(xiàn)在對(duì)法輪大法的神化上。法輪大法被法輪功稱之為“宇宙根本大法”，無(wú)所不包，無(wú)所不能。李洪志在其經(jīng)文中更是信口開(kāi)河，說(shuō)什么“大法是宇宙的法，大法創(chuàng)造了宇宙中的一切生命，大法開(kāi)創(chuàng)了宇宙不同層次生命的生存環(huán)境與標(biāo)準(zhǔn)，也給不同層次的生命創(chuàng)造了不同的智慧，包括人類的文化”（李洪志《隨意所用》）；“大法有著無(wú)限的內(nèi)涵，造就了宇宙每一層次的一切”（李洪志《走向圓滿》）；“人類當(dāng)今的一切，包括歷史上的一切和三界的出現(xiàn)，都是為了這次正法而存在”（李洪志《2007年紐約法會(huì)講法》）。
《明慧網(wǎng)》的“明慧資料館”中對(duì)法輪大法的簡(jiǎn)介為“法輪大法也稱法輪功”，《大紀(jì)元》則在李洪志“退團(tuán)聲明”上面大字標(biāo)注“法輪功創(chuàng)始人”。那么，可以這樣理解：沒(méi)有李洪志，就沒(méi)有法輪功，即沒(méi)有法輪大法。如此說(shuō)來(lái)，李洪志的邏輯就是：先有的法輪功，后有的宇宙和生命；先有的李洪志，后有的人類和歷史。不然，法輪大法又何以“創(chuàng)造宇宙中的一切生命”，三界又何以“為這次正法而存在？”
只有顛倒黑白胡編亂造才能使法輪功生造出一個(gè)“活神”來(lái)，而顛倒黑白胡編亂造地造神，也正是法輪功“法輪文化”的內(nèi)容之一。
二、“法輪文化”是害人文化
法輪功對(duì)國(guó)內(nèi)數(shù)百名走火入魔的弟子剖腹、上吊、自焚而死于非命的事實(shí)均以“造謠”為借口拒不承認(rèn)，那么，它對(duì)自己媒體的報(bào)道該不會(huì)否認(rèn)吧。瀏覽法輪功的《明慧網(wǎng)》、《大紀(jì)元》等網(wǎng)站內(nèi)容，不難發(fā)現(xiàn)他們?cè)诠拇荡蠓?、神化“師父”的宣傳中，不?jīng)意透漏了大法弟子受害的事實(shí)。
明慧網(wǎng)２００７年６月２９日登載了一篇題為《堅(jiān)定正念就能突破病業(yè)關(guān)》的大法弟子文章。文章說(shuō)，“二零零七年大年過(guò)后的一天晚上，剛發(fā)完八點(diǎn)鐘的正念，就覺(jué)的自己膝蓋骨中突然有東西間隔，造成行動(dòng)不便，同時(shí)出現(xiàn)右腳發(fā)抖，右手不聽(tīng)使喚，脖子不能轉(zhuǎn)動(dòng)等現(xiàn)象。家里人見(jiàn)狀非常著急，立即將我送到醫(yī)院進(jìn)行檢查，醫(yī)生診斷為‘腦血栓’”?！熬驮谳斠簳r(shí)，我腦海中突然閃現(xiàn)出師父的講法……我突然醒悟，知道這是慈悲的師父在用法理點(diǎn)醒糊涂的弟子，便立即要求醫(yī)生停止輸液?！边@位大法弟子不聽(tīng)醫(yī)生的勸告，拒絕就醫(yī)?！暗谌炷茏呗妨?，只是身體表現(xiàn)非常虛弱，走路氣喘，力不從心”，“兩個(gè)月后，再次出現(xiàn)腦血栓癥狀且比第一次更為嚴(yán)重，我只能把住床沿躺下，坐立十分艱難”，仍“鼓起勇氣坐起來(lái)，發(fā)出強(qiáng)大的正念：徹底清除舊勢(shì)力，一切邪惡、爛鬼、邪靈等”。文章最后感慨道，“二十天后，我的身體完全恢復(fù)正常，感覺(jué)走路一身輕，我知道這是師尊的慈悲呵護(hù)，再次挽救了我這個(gè)不爭(zhēng)氣的弟子?！?br>
國(guó)內(nèi)媒體曾多次報(bào)道過(guò)法輪功弟子受李洪志的欺騙，有病拒醫(yī)，延誤治療，最終命喪法黃泉的事例，明慧網(wǎng)的這篇文章應(yīng)該是國(guó)內(nèi)媒體報(bào)道真實(shí)性的佐證。稍有醫(yī)學(xué)常識(shí)的人都會(huì)知道，“腦血栓”對(duì)這位一病再病仍拒絕治療，只寄希望于“師尊”“慈悲呵護(hù)”的人來(lái)說(shuō)意味著什么。雖然寫此文的人還在，但可以斷定，如果這位大法弟子執(zhí)迷不悟，他必是法輪功的又一個(gè)受害者。
類似這樣的例子可以列舉很多，什么《大法顯神跡胃癌不翼而飛》、《腰痛脈管炎不翼而飛都因?qū)W法又煉功》（明慧網(wǎng)２００７年９月１８日）、《法輪大法救了我這個(gè)絕癥病人》（明慧網(wǎng)２００７年７月２１日）、《腰上的鋼板神奇消失》（明慧網(wǎng)２００７年８月２０日）等等，都是否定現(xiàn)代醫(yī)學(xué)作用，把健康和生命寄托法輪大法的。他們自以為突破了“病業(yè)關(guān)”，實(shí)際走向了鬼門關(guān)。
需要特別指出的是，害人的“法輪文化”黑手，不僅指向法輪功信徒，還指向了他們的家人、他們的孩子，甚至兒童！
明慧網(wǎng)２００７年９月１８日刊登了一篇《九歲大法小弟子另外空間所見(jiàn)》的文章，標(biāo)明“九歲的慧慧口述在夢(mèng)中和發(fā)正念時(shí)所見(jiàn)，大法弟子幫助整理”。文章說(shuō)，一天她夢(mèng)見(jiàn)師父帶她去旅游了，“看見(jiàn)師尊身穿金黃色的袈裟，打著大蓮花手印”，將她“接到大船上”，“幾秒鐘就到了另一個(gè)世界”。后來(lái)，她耳邊總有個(gè)聲音對(duì)她說(shuō)“云游、云游、云游……”講到“發(fā)正念”時(shí)，她說(shuō)道，“一天，我發(fā)正念的時(shí)候走神了，忘了念‘滅’字，在師尊的提醒下，我馬上補(bǔ)念‘滅’。師尊示意我往上看，就見(jiàn)我的頭頂一個(gè)邪魔被師尊的大手抓住，瞬間，那個(gè)邪魔在師尊大手里化成水了……有一次我睜著眼睛發(fā)正念，看到一個(gè)無(wú)比丑陋的魔頭，我心想：這次不能放過(guò)它，一定清除它。于是我快速追上去，過(guò)一會(huì)兒，我終于追上了，然后變了一個(gè)巨大的手一抓，把它一下化成一灘黑水?！?br>
可憐的慧慧，小小年紀(jì)就被法輪功折磨得幻聽(tīng)幻視、胡言亂語(yǔ)了?；刍劭傆虚L(zhǎng)大的時(shí)候，慧慧總有懂科學(xué)的時(shí)候，那時(shí)，當(dāng)她回憶起法輪功在她年幼時(shí)向她灌輸這些邪念，并利用小小的她來(lái)宣揚(yáng)自己法力無(wú)邊時(shí)，不知會(huì)作何感想。雖然慧慧的病以后可以醫(yī)好，可心靈創(chuàng)傷的印記何時(shí)才能消除？
心靈受法輪功傷害的何止慧慧。明慧網(wǎng)有個(gè)《小弟子園地》，專門刊登法輪功所稱的“小弟子”“學(xué)法”、“得法”、“證法”的“事例”，簡(jiǎn)直無(wú)奇不有。什么《十二歲大陸小弟子見(jiàn)證大法神奇》、《十一歲小大法弟子正念闖病業(yè)關(guān)的故事》、《小法蓮勸三退》、《五歲兒子得法記》、《三歲的佳佳講真象（相）》《一歲寶寶想煉功》……真是可笑又可恨！可笑的是法輪功的愚蠢，謊話都編不圓；可恨的是法輪功的無(wú)恥，竟拿孩子來(lái)說(shuō)事，天良何在！
三、“法輪文化”是反動(dòng)文化
用“恨之入骨”來(lái)形容李洪志對(duì)中國(guó)政府和中國(guó)共產(chǎn)黨的態(tài)度恐怕一點(diǎn)兒也不過(guò)份。法輪功在國(guó)內(nèi)被取締后，李洪志便一頭栽入國(guó)際反華勢(shì)力的懷抱，一改“不問(wèn)政治”的“順民”假相，露骨地對(duì)中國(guó)政府和中國(guó)共產(chǎn)黨進(jìn)行瘋狂攻擊。李洪志的經(jīng)文、法輪功的媒體宣傳以及他們的演出、大賽、法會(huì)等各項(xiàng)活動(dòng)，無(wú)不充斥著一個(gè)共同的基調(diào)，那就是詆毀中國(guó)，詆毀中共。
或許是文化程度的關(guān)系，李洪志的詆毀外加謾罵和詛咒。在他的經(jīng)文里，中共和中國(guó)政府工作人員被稱作“惡黨”、“邪黨”、“流氓特務(wù)”（李洪志《除惡》）、“邪惡”、“邪惡的爛鬼”、“黑手、爛鬼與舊勢(shì)力”、“邪惡生命與因素”（李洪志《徹底解體邪惡》）等等，也不知如此野蠻的語(yǔ)言，李洪志難道不怕臟了弟子的耳朵？
在經(jīng)文《除惡》的結(jié)尾，李洪志甚至詛咒說(shuō)，“從現(xiàn)在起，我與眾神完全撤掉人類這種職業(yè)的前程，撤掉在九九年‘七?二零’之后所有中共惡黨制造出的流氓特務(wù)的人生福份，叫他們?cè)谧约涸煜碌淖飷簝斶€中走完極短的人生……從現(xiàn)在開(kāi)始，他們將會(huì)在還惡業(yè)中生不如死，而且會(huì)很快的一個(gè)個(gè)的死去后下地獄”。好個(gè)狠毒，又是“生不如死”，又是“死去后下地獄”，讀來(lái)真讓人擔(dān)心“李大師”的鋼牙是不是咬碎了？且不說(shuō)“李大師”有沒(méi)有撤掉人生福份這等本事，也不說(shuō)“眾神”緣何與他“保持一致”，單就“文化”層面而言，這種巫婆式的語(yǔ)言，這種信口開(kāi)河的胡謅，居然就是“法輪文化”的精華，居然也要受法輪功眾弟子的膜拜，實(shí)在令人恥笑。
上行下效。師父都敢胡言亂語(yǔ)，法輪功的媒體當(dāng)然更肆無(wú)忌憚，只要是反華、反共的什么都敢說(shuō)，什么都敢登。除去“九評(píng)”、“解體”的陳詞濫調(diào)反復(fù)宣傳外，就是鼓動(dòng)大法弟子“講真相”、“勸三退”，矛頭所指，盡人皆知。于是大量諸如《讓迫害大法的惡人現(xiàn)世現(xiàn)報(bào)》、《清理邪黨文化的毒素》、《講真相勸三退顯神奇》、《初三學(xué)生在學(xué)校講真相二三事》及前文提到的《三歲的佳佳講真象（相）》等明顯帶有詛咒、編造痕跡的文章充斥了法輪功網(wǎng)站，成為法輪功媒體反華反共大合唱的主旋律。
在法輪功舉辦的各種文化活動(dòng)中，照樣散發(fā)著同一種氣味。遠(yuǎn)的不說(shuō)，就拿法輪功近日舉辦的“多倫多神韻中秋晚會(huì)”和即將舉辦的“全世界華人聲樂(lè)大賽”來(lái)說(shuō)，“火藥味兒”之濃足以蓋過(guò)文化氣息。在“多倫多神韻中秋晚會(huì)”事先的宣傳中，就明確講出“沒(méi)有共產(chǎn)黨文化”，而“全世界華人聲樂(lè)大賽”章程更是露骨地規(guī)定“參賽作品不得有歌頌中國(guó)共產(chǎn)黨或者中共黨文化內(nèi)容的歌曲”?？梢?jiàn)，晚會(huì)也好，大賽也好，都是法輪功反共反華的手段，只不過(guò)“雷聲大雨點(diǎn)兒小”的效果總是難稱其愿。
似乎光靠宣傳鼓噪還難解李洪志心頭之恨，在世界矚目、國(guó)人期待的08年北京奧運(yùn)會(huì)問(wèn)題上，法輪功變本加厲，喪心病狂地演繹了一出出鬧劇。為和“奧運(yùn)圣火傳遞”相對(duì)抗，他們拼湊了所謂“法輪功受迫害真相聯(lián)合調(diào)查團(tuán)”，搞了個(gè)什么“人權(quán)圣火全球巡回傳遞活動(dòng)”，明說(shuō)“希望人權(quán)圣火觸及美國(guó)人良知”，“要求美國(guó)政府抵制2008年北京奧運(yùn)”。為給中國(guó)政府和北京奧運(yùn)抹黑，他們還別有用心地拋出了一個(gè)“手銬奧運(yùn)”圖案，把五環(huán)圖案改成五個(gè)套在一起的手銬，寓意中國(guó)的人權(quán)狀況。法輪功的有關(guān)組織還紛紛給一些國(guó)家領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人上書寫信，希望抵制北京奧運(yùn)，自然是落了個(gè)自討沒(méi)趣的結(jié)果。
法輪功在北京奧運(yùn)問(wèn)題上“蚍蜉撼樹”的不自量力，說(shuō)明逆世界潮流、歷史潮流、社會(huì)潮流的反動(dòng)力量、反動(dòng)文化是阻擋不了人類社會(huì)前進(jìn)的步伐的，法輪功連同它的“法輪文化”只能成為歷史的垃圾，被世人拋棄。
四、“法輪文化”是邪教文化
眾所周知，邪教是世界的禍害，人類的公敵，社會(huì)的毒瘤。上個(gè)世紀(jì)的最后二三十年，發(fā)生在西方發(fā)達(dá)國(guó)家的一樁樁神秘、離奇、讓人始料不及的集體性血案震驚了世界，也給世人敲響了警鐘，它告訴人們要遠(yuǎn)離邪教。
“人民圣殿教”、“太陽(yáng)圣殿教”、“奧姆真理教”、“天堂之門”、“大衛(wèi)教派”……一個(gè)個(gè)令人恐懼的名字，就是一個(gè)個(gè)令人心顫的災(zāi)難。對(duì)照這些世界邪教的特點(diǎn)，不難發(fā)現(xiàn)，法輪功與之何其相似！
自我神化、教主崇拜是所有邪教最明顯的共同特點(diǎn)。從更改出生日期，到拼接蓮花法像；從“今天我不度你，誰(shuí)也度不了你”的國(guó)內(nèi)講法，到鼓吹大法貶低諸神的境外經(jīng)文；李洪志的自我神化可謂青出于藍(lán)而勝于藍(lán)。以往的邪教教主只是把自己說(shuō)成神，說(shuō)成上帝，李洪志則把自己說(shuō)成是主宰眾神的神。他的法輪大法是宇宙大法，宇宙為大法而存在，大法要“法正乾坤”“法正天地”、“法正人間”，而這部大法只有他這一個(gè)師父（李洪志《美國(guó)佛羅里達(dá)法會(huì)講法》），真是自我神化到無(wú)以復(fù)加的地步。
邪教教主自我神化的目的是搞教主崇拜，繼而控制信徒，其手段是鼓吹“世界末日論”，使其信徒依賴他的拯救而聽(tīng)命于他。李洪志不是也大談什么“地球爆炸”嗎，甚至揚(yáng)言他能推遲地球爆炸的時(shí)間，但只能推遲。面對(duì)世界毀滅，法輪功的信徒們只有一個(gè)選擇：修煉、正法、求圓滿。于是，在李洪志的旨意下，眾信徒紛紛“勸三退”，“講真相”，以求功成圓滿后，師父能度他們?nèi)ァ疤靽?guó)”。
值得注意的是，李洪志在近年的經(jīng)文中幾次要弟子們“放下生死”，“去掉執(zhí)著”，甚至向弟子們疾呼，“人心太重的大法弟子啊，我領(lǐng)你們走的是神的路”，“精進(jìn)吧，放下人心的執(zhí)著，神路不算遠(yuǎn)了”（李洪志《正法中要正念、不要人心》）；“走好最后的路”，“讓你們的生命在未來(lái)的宇宙中更加閃光”（李洪志《美國(guó)首都講法》）。明慧網(wǎng)刊登的法輪功弟子的文章中，也有不少提到要“走好最后的路”。這些沒(méi)頭沒(méi)腦的話，總讓人感到有些不大對(duì)勁兒。
制造了923人集體死亡慘案的人民圣殿教教主吉姆瓊斯，不是也曾說(shuō)過(guò)“死只不過(guò)是休息片刻，很快便會(huì)轉(zhuǎn)入來(lái)世”的話嗎？帶領(lǐng)眾信徒在烈火中走完最后的路――“奔向天狼星”的太陽(yáng)圣殿教，不是也相信“輪回”，認(rèn)為“死是另一個(gè)世界的生”嗎？他們堪稱“放下生死”吧。當(dāng)然，邪教都是在走投無(wú)路的情況下走向極端的，但是他們走向極端的方式，實(shí)際上是教主早已為他們選好的方式。雖然法輪功還沒(méi)有到走投無(wú)路的地步，但已日暮途窮，山窮水盡是早晚的事，那時(shí)，它將會(huì)選擇怎樣的路帶領(lǐng)弟子們“走向圓滿”呢？人間會(huì)不會(huì)又增加一個(gè)慘烈的悲劇呢？“李大師”說(shuō)“神路不算遠(yuǎn)了”，這個(gè)問(wèn)題是該引起法輪大法的弟子們和世人警惕的時(shí)候了。
按照“法輪文化”的定義（當(dāng)然是借用“黨文化”的定義內(nèi)涵）解析法輪功的“思維方式、話語(yǔ)系統(tǒng)及行為模式”，本文只是勾畫了法輪功的一個(gè)大致輪廓，更多的內(nèi)容，相信有識(shí)之士會(huì)繼續(xù)解析的。
Analyzing 'Falun culture'
To be honest, "Falun culture", a phrase that doesn't exist in Modern Chinese Dictionary or even in Chinese Encyclopedia, is a creation of the author. Why did the author create such a coined phrase? As you can see, there is no "Communist culture" either. Since Falun Gong can coin the term "Communist culture", the author can borrow their "creation" as well - with a slight change by defining "Falun culture" as "the kind of thinking, wording and behavior based on Falun Gong value".
However, although the author has created such a term, he cannot do as Falun Gong in "disintegrating" other cultures but can only have a simple analysis of "Falun culture", because the author himself is just an "ordinary man" other than any god with "great theurgy" to disintegrate any other people as he wish, and after all, he is not so idle as to read through the insipid "Zhuan Falun", nor can he suborn a gang of people to compose "disintegration" articles like what the Falun Gong organization did.
1. "Falun culture" is the culture for theism
In its article "Disintegrating Communist Culture", Falun Gong denounced antitheism advocated by CCP by chapter and verse, saying: "there are gods and spirit right above your head". They even quoted ancient Chinese fables such as "Pan Gu Creating the universe". In fact, if Falun Gong really believes in god, it would not have been criticized or outlawed since freedom of belief is widely recognized in China. By banning on Falun Gong, CCP aims to respect religious belief even though it advocates antitheism. On the contrary, Falun Gong presents us a modern version of despotic religion in middle age in Europe by smearing anyone who doesn't believe in "Falun Dafa" as "demon" and antitheists as "evil". In denouncing antitheism advocated by CCP, Falun Gong simply wants to convince others that they suffered persecution for having been outlawed. In fact, the fundamental reason for Falun Gong to have been outlawed is not its theist belief but its anti-science, anti-human and anti-society nature as well as its actions in endangering life and disrupting the society.
Does Falun Gong really believe in god? What kind of god does it believe? While any religious followers have their own god, i.e. Buddha for the Buddhists, God for the Christians, Allah for the Muslims and Laozi for the Taoists, who is the god for Falun Gong followers? Different from the traditional religions whose gods are either in heaven or in their followers' hearts, the god of Falun Gong is their founder Li Hongzhi, a living man that can give order to his followers. In this sense, we can say that Falun Gong doesn't believe in god but tries to create a god.
In "An Introduction to Mr. Li Hongzhi", a booklet compiled by Falun Gong, Li Hongzhi was described as having "mastered high level Dafa at the age of 8, with magnificent powers such as telekinesis, thinking control and invisible...understand the universal truth and secret of life and can foretell the past and future of the human beings." Li Hongzhi also assumed himself as god when he boasted to reporters in Australian in 1999, "some people said that I am a god or Buddha, some people called me great master... I cannot seal their mouths."
As such a "god" created by Falun Gong was not satisfied with the fact of being created as a god, he attempted to overpower and disintegrate other gods. In "Fa Teaching at the 2007 New York Fa Conference", Li Hongzhi said, "It is said that Shakyamuni taught the Fa, and Jesus taught the Way. But in fact, what they taught was meant for only one of the souls, a subordinate soul, of each person, whereas the human side over here couldn't understand it, and this made it impossible for the person at the surface and his master soul (zhu yuanshen) to change themselves through cultivation. People talk about how Buddha Shakyamuni spread the Fa in such-and-such manner. He and those like him were merely establishing mankind's culture, however...And in fact, that was itself to establish for human beings a way of thinking that would enable them to understand divine beings and to establish a culture that would make the idea of divine beings comprehensible. Were history otherwise, when I came to impart the Fa today it would have been very hard for me to teach this Fa, as you would not know what a god was, what a Buddha was, or what a Dao was. How would I teach it, then?" It seems that Shakyamuni and Jesus did nothing but paved the way for Li Hongzhi for his Fa preaching. How dare he challenge religions in the world? What's more, in "Disintegrate Completely All the Meddling Deities in the Three Realms", he said, "For quite some time now, the old forces and all of the meddling deities in the Three Realms that play a negative role have been having a terrible impact...No matter what outward appearance their existence may assume, whether they assume a form or not, what level they may be, or whose appearance they may take on, completely disintegrate and eliminate them all." This indicates that any religion that didn't recognize Falun Gong and its "god" Li Hongzhi was to be eliminated by Falun Gong. How ruthless it is! Who would recognize a "god" like Li Hongzhi? Well in this sense, the deity position assumed by Li Hongzhi works only inside Falun Gong.
The "Falun culture" was also manifested in its apotheosizing Falun Dafa, as it was boasted to be the "universal law" that contained any truth about the universe and was omnipotent. In his scriptures, Li Hongzhi ran off at the mouth in boasting Falun Dafa by saying, "Dafa is the universal Law; Dafa created all lives in the universe; Dafa initiated the living environment and standard for various levels of life in the universe and endowed life in different levels with different wisdom, including culture of the human beings" (Li Hongzhi: "Use as You Wish"); "Dafa contains infinite meaning and created everything in every level of the universe." (Li Hongzhi: "To Consummation"); or "everything of mankind today, including everything that has happened in history and the emergence of the Three Realms, exists for the Fa-rectification." (Li Hongzhi: "Fa Teaching at the 2007 New York Fa Conference")
In "Minghui Information Package" of Minghui Net, it said, "Falun Dafa is also named as Falun Gong". In Statement on Quit the League, Epoch Times addressed Li Hongzhi as "Falun Gong founder". From these allegations, we can draw a conclusion that there would not be Falun Gong or Falun Dafa without Li Hongzhi. In this sense, Li Hongzhi follows the logic that Falun Gong emerges earlier than the universe and life and that Li Hongzhi is born earlier than the human kind and the history. Otherwise, how could Falun Dafa "created all life in the universe"? How could the three realms "exist for the Fa-rectification"?
Only by calling black white can Falun Gong recklessly create a "living god". Recklessly creating god is indeed one element of "Falun culture" of the Falun Gong organization.
2. "Falun culture" is the culture for endangering others
Falun Gong denied the fact that hundreds Falun Gong practitioners died unnaturally by paunch, hanging or self-immolation for having become mentally disordered in practicing Falun Gong, alleging it to be "rumoring". How about the reports on Falun Gong media then? Should they still deny such reports? On Minghui Net, Epoch Times and other Falun Gong websites, we can observe from their propagation many unintentionally revealed facts about Falun Dafa followers being endangered.
On June 29, 2007, Minghui Net published an article written by a Dafa disciple entitled "Firm Righteous Thoughts can Breach Karma Pass". The article states, "In one evening after 2007 Spring Festival, after I finished sending forth the 8 o'clock righteous thoughts, I suddenly felt something blocked in my knee cap and I just could not move freely. In the mean time, my right leg was trembling, both my right hand and my neck could not move. My family members were very anxious and they sent me to the hospital. It was then diagnosed that I had a 'brain thrombus'...During the transfusion, Fa teaching of the master suddenly emerged in my brain...I suddenly understood that I was the merciful master enlightening the muddleheaded disciple with Dafa. Therefore I asked the doctor to stop transfusion." The Dafa Disciple didn't listen to the doctor and refused to have medical treatment. "On the third day, I could walk although I still felt quite weak...Two months later, symptom of brain thrombus emerged once again and this time it seemed worse than the first time, for which I could only lie on the bed and could hardly stand or sit...I gathered my strength to sit on the bed, sending forth the righteous thoughts: completely eradicate the old forces, evils and demons..." The article finally sighed, "twenty days later, I was completely recovered and felt quite relieved. I know it is the great master that blessed me and saved me-a sneaking disciple."
Domestic media have reported many cases in which Falun Gong practitioners died for having refused medical treatment under the deceiving of Li Hongzhi. The above-mentioned article should be a proof of the authenticity of domestic media reports. People with some medical knowledge must know what might it mean to a man who had "brain thrombus" but repeatedly refused to have medical treatment while relying on the "merciful blessing" of the "master". Even if the author of this article is still alive, he will certainly be another victim for Falun Gong as long as he is still obsessed in Falun Gong.
There are many other similar stories on Minghui Net, e.g. "Dafa manifests its power and Stomach Cancer Disappears", "Practicing Gong Make Lumbago Phlebitis Disappear" (Minghui Net, September 18, 2007), "Falun Dafa Save a Patient with Incurable Disease" (Minghui Net, June 21, 2007), "Armor Plate on My Waist Disappears Magically" (Minghui Net, August 20, 2007). In all these stories, the narrator denied the role of modern medicine and risked their health and life on Falun Dafa. Their illusive idea of breaching "karma pass" in fact leads them to the gate of hell.
It should be noted that the harmful "Falun culture" endangered not only Falun Gong followers but also their family members, even including children!
On its September 18, 2007 edition, Minghui Net published an article entitled "What a Nine-year-old Dafa Disciple See in Another Space", noting it was "the narration of nine-year-old Huihui for what she saw in her dream and in her sending forth righteous thoughts and was packed up by Dafa disciples". The article said that one day in her dream the master took her for a travel. She "saw the master in golden cassock and with lotus flower fingerprint" taking her "to a big boat", and "got to the other world in just several seconds." Since then, it seemed as if someone often speak to her near her ear, "travel, travel, travel..." About "sending forth righteous thoughts", she said, "one day, I was distracted while I was sending forth righteous thoughts and forgot to recite the word 'Mie'. Under the reminding of the master, I added the word 'Mie'. The master asked me to look above. Follower his order, I looked above and saw a demon on my head who was caught by the master with his huge hand. The demon turned into water in a minute... Once I sent forth righteous thoughts with my eyes open, therefore I saw an ugly demon. I said to myself, this time I should get rid of it. Therefore I chased up swiftly. In a minute, I caught it and turned it into black water."
Poor Huihui! Under the distortion of Falun Gong, such a small kid was lost in such an illusive world. When Huihui grows up and gets access to science, how might she feel as she recalled such evil ideas indoctrinated in her by Falun Gong and the fact that Falun Gong had used young kids like her to spread its "omnipotent power"? Even if Huihui might get cured for her disease, how could her spiritual injury be cured?
It is not Huihui alone who has been endangered by Falun Gong. On Minghui Net there is Forum for Small Disciples that published stories about the small disciples in their studying Fa, achieving Fa and vindicating Fa, e.g. "Twelve-Year-old Mainland Small Disciple witnessed the Magic Power of Dafa", "Story about an Eleven-year-old Small Dafa Disciple Overcoming Karma with Righteous Thoughts", "Small Falian Persuade Others for three Quits", "Story about my Five-year-old Son Getting Fa", "Three-year-old Jiajia Tells the Truth", "A One-year-old Baby Wants to Practice Falun Gong" How ridiculous! How hateful! It is ridiculous for Falun Gong to be so foolish in fabricating such idiotic stories. It is hateful for Falun Gong to be so impudent as to make stories on the innocent children.
3. "Falun culture" is retroactive culture
Falun Gong must extremely hate the Chinese government and CCP. After Falun Gong was outlawed in China, Li Hongzhi just changed his "no politics" allegation and denounced Chinese government roundly and wantonly by throwing himself into the lap of international anti-Chinese forces. Li Hongzhi's scriptures, propagating of Falun Gong as well as their performances, contests and Fa conferences are full of the tone of smearing China and CCP.
Maybe Li Hongzhi was not well educated, his smearing of Chinese government and CCP were coupled with vituperation and cursing. In his scriptures, the Chinese government and CCP were called "evil Party" and their staff as "lowlife secret agents" (Li Hongzhi: "Eliminating the Evil"), "evil", "rotten demons", "dark minions, rotten demons, and old forces" or "evil beings and elements" (Li Hongzhi: "Thoroughly Dissolve the Evil"). Wouldn't such barbaric words blemish ears of Li Hongzhi's followers as well?
At the end of the lection "Eliminating the Evil", Li Hongzhi even cursed, "Henceforth, the gods and I will completely take away the future of this type of human occupation, and take away the good fortune in the lives of the lowlife secret agents who have been produced by the evil CCP since July 20 of 1999, and have them walk to their ends instantly, paying the sins they committed... And this especially holds for all who participated in and planned the Atlanta incident: the good fortune in their lives will be completely taken away. Starting from this moment, they will pay for their sinful karma, wishing they were dead. In rapid succession they will die and descend to Hell". How malevolent it is! We just wonder whether "master Li" has crunched his teeth in uttering such evil-minded cursing. It doesn't matter whether "master Li" could take away the good fortune, nor does it matter whether gods would like to keep align with him. It is really ridiculous that such witch-like cursing and nonsense was regarded as soul of "Falun culture" and was worshiped by Falun Gong disciples.
Since Li Hongzhi talked nonsense, Falun Gong media certainly would run riot in spreading and advocating anything possible to act against China and CCP. Besides repeatedly propagating such hackneyed and stereotyped expressions as "Nine Comments on CCP" and "Disintegrating CCP", they also instigated Dafa disciples to "tell the truth" and "persuade others for three quits". Therefore Falun Gong websites were full of fabricated articles such as "May Evils persecuting Dafa be revenged", "Clean Toxin of the Evil Party Culture", "Magic power displayed in Telling the Truth and Persuading Others for Three Quits", "Stories about Middle School Students Telling the Truth in the School" as well as the one mentioned above- "Three-year-old Jiajia Tells the truth".
Such atmosphere also filled with various cultural activities held by Falun Gong. For instance, anti-Chinese aroma instead of cultural elements dominated the newly held "Toronto Divine Mid-Autumn Gala" and the coming "Global Chinese Vocality Contest". In the early advertising for "Toronto Divine Mid-Autumn Gala", it was clearly stated: "there will not be communist culture". In the Rule for "Global Chinese Vocality Contest", it baldly stipulated: "works for the contest shall not contain elements extolling CCP or CCP culture". In fact, all these activities were nothing but a tool used by Falun Gong to act against CCP and China, although they rarely had any effect.
Maybe, Li Hongzhi didn't ever felt satisfied in propagation and instigation. On the coming 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Falun Gong lunaticly directed many farces. In order to act against "Olympic Flame Relay", Falun Gong organized a so-called "Joint Truth Investigation Group on Falun Gong Persecution" to have the "Global Relay of Human Rights Flame", "hoping human rights flame may touch upon conscience of the Americans", and "requesting US government to reject 2008 Beijing Olympic Games". In order to bring shame on Chinese government and Beijing Olympic Games, they purposefully created a "Handcuff Olympic" design by changing the five Olympic Circle to five connected handcuffs, suggesting the human right status in China. Falun Gong also delivered letters to heads of some states in hope that they would reject Beijing Olympic Games, which certainly resulted in failure.
Failure of Falun Gong on the issue of Beijing Olympic Games shows that the retroactive forces and retroactive culture that act against the world trend, historic trend and social trend can never hold up the advance of human society. Falun Gong and its "Falun culture" will eventually be abandoned by the crowd as rubbish in the history.
4. "Falun culture" is cult culture
As is known, cult is bane to the world, public enemy to the human beings and cancer to the society. A lot of mass murder cases that took place in late 20 century greatly shocked the world and alerted the public to keep away from cult.
The People's Temple, the Solar Temple, the Aum Shinri Kyo, the Door to Heaven, the Branch Davidian and other cults simple mean disasters to human beings. Falun Gong is indeed quite similar to these world cults in essence.
Self-apotheosis and founder worship are the most prominent features for cults. Li Hongzhi should have surpassed other cult founders in self-apotheosis by actions ranging from changing his own birthday to piecing up lotus flower Fa image, from alleging "no one else can save you if I can not save you" in his domestic Fa teaching to boasting Dafa while debasing the gods in his scriptures written outside of China. While other cult founders simply claimed they themselves god, Li Hongzhi boasted himself to be the god that dominates the gods, and his Falun Dafa to be the universal law while the universe just exists for Dafa. The Dafa would have "Fa-rectification of the cosmos", "Fa-rectification of the world" and "Fa-rectification of the human society", and Li Hongzhi himself is the only master that spreads such "great" Dafa. (Li Hongzhi: "Fa-Lecture at the Conference in Florida, U.S.A."). This is how Li Hongzhi apotheosized himself!
Cult founders generally apotheosize themselves to have their disciples worship the cult founders and have the disciples controlled by them. They generally puffed "doomsday theory" to have their disciples firmly believe that only their founders could save them. Li Hongzhi had puffed that "the earth would explode" and he could postpone the time for explosion (so bad that he could only postpone the time for explosion). In a world that would be soon ruined, Falun Gong followers had only one choice: striving for consummation through cultivation and rectifying the Fa. Thereby under the order of Li Hongzhi, numerous Falun Gong followers came out to "persuade for three quits" and "tell the truth", wishing to achieve consummation and their master would save them and bring them to "heaven".
It is notable that in his recent lections, Li Hongzhi repeatedly asked his disciples to "ignore life or death" and "cast aside attachments". He even urged his disciples, "My Dafa disciples who have strong human thoughts, the path I'm leading you down heads toward godhood, yet...Be diligent! Cast aside your human attachments. Godhood isn't far away."(Li Hongzhi: "In Fa-Rectification, Your Thoughts Have to be Righteous, Not Human"), and "walk well the final step of the journey...May your lives shine ever more brightly in the cosmos of the future." (Li Hongzhi: "Fa Teaching at the U.S. Capital"). In articles published on Minghui Net, many Falun Gong followers also talked about "walking well the final step of the journey". Such nonsense just associates us with some miserable feelings.
Didn't James Jones, founder of the People's Temple Cult that has resulted in a mass death of 923 people, also say "death is nothing but a rest, and you will soon have new life in the other world"? Didn't the Solar Temple, a cult that has its followers take the last step of their journey in fire- running to Canicula- advocate "metempsychosis" and "death is reborn in another world"? Didn't these cult followers ignore their lives? While cults got to extreme because of their desperation, their ways of getting to extreme were, however, determined by their founders. Although Falun Gong has not become desperate, it is in fact dying. What way might it choose in leading its followers to "consummation"? Might one more tragedy take place? Falun Dafa followers as well as the public should be alert to what "master Li" had said-"Godhood isn't far away".
In analyzing "thinking, wording and behavior" of Falun Gong in light of the definition of "Falun culture" (borrow from the definition of "Communist culture"), the author just sketched a generally scheme of Falun Gong and its culture. I believe many other men of insight will have more in-depth analysis on Falun Gong.
(Kaiwind, October 9, 2007)