re: Religion: Falun Gong: Response to Mike Bonnie (Ying Rong, US)

Ying Rong responds to Mike Bonnie’s post of 5 November:

Falun Gong practitioners believe in “Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance.” We are also striving to become selfishless human beings, putting others as first priority. Our practice only has benefits to ourselves, our families and friends, our coworkers and the society we live in.

It is the communist regime that sets this group of practitioners as the “No.1 enemy,” treating Falun Gong as “anti-revolutionary” because of the party’s fear of Falun Gong’s popularity. It is the communist regime’s negative propaganda that has put so many negative thoughts in your mind. Think about it, did you have any negative thoughts about Falun Gong in the first 6 years when Falun Gong was being spread in China and the persecution hadn’t started?

Being merciful to a murderous dictator is not compassion. Following a murderous regime’s logic to justify a large-scale genocide is wrong.

This world’s history is filled with battles between the evil and goodness. However, it is up to each person to choose which side he or she stands with. There is an old saying in Chinese that goes, “Doing good deeds will be rewarded; doing bad deeds will be punished.”

I don’t truly have anything more to say to you since you claim you are so well-informed about Falun Gong. May my compassion go all the way out to you. I silently wish that one day in the future your heart will wake up to the truth. I hope that you will have a chance to appreciate the truth soon.

JE comments: Ying Rong has also sent me an “open letter” to President Obama on the eve of his trip to China (12 November). I’ll post it tomorrow.