Astro wrote:

You describe Falun Gong as a sect. Have either of you met a Falun Gong
member and conversed with them? You will often find them demonstrating in
front of Chinese consulates and embassies worldwide. Go there and talk to
them and then tell me they are a "sect."

Not me - it was the other guy.

Falun Gong is very similiar to Yoga and other Asian excercise/meditation.
To call it a "sect" reveals how much the Communist Party propaganda has
permeated Western thought.

I consider it a philosophy (not a perfect one, but better than
hard-line Marxism), and the fact that it is practiced by *very* many
people (more Falun Gong worldwide than Jews, for example) lifts it out
of the sect department, anyway.

Bruce Jensen