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theatlantic.com ^ | January 13, 2021 | Simon van Zuylen-Wood

Posted on 01/17/2021 9:02:00 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper

... The epoch times was founded in 2000 by John Tang, an Atlanta-based follower of the Chinese spiritual movement Falun Gong, whose members you might have seen doing meditative exercises in parks, and whose living messiah is Li Hongzhi, a cherubic-faced man generally shown wearing dark suits. The movement, which claims to have millions of adherents, encourages believers to abandon lust, greed, alcohol, and other worldly “attachments.” Some of the more unusual characteristics of its outlook include a distrust of medical doctors and a belief in malevolent, Earth-roaming aliens who created impious technology (such as video games). In 1999, the Chinese government concluded that Falun Gong was growing too popular. Beijing labeled the movement a cult and suppressed it. But Falun Gong flourished abroad among the Chinese diaspora, and its teachings took on a fervent anti-Communist bent.

The Epoch Times has sought to maintain a certain distance from Falun Gong, and its right-wing politics come across, at first glance, as no more cultish than those of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon’s old Washington Times.

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KEYWORDS: china; epochfakenews; epochtimes; falongong; lalaland; simonvanzuylenwood; theatlantic
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To: Uncle Miltie

“I subscribe to The Epoch Times.”

Me too. Their journalism is something the decrepit Leftist rags could never aspire to.


21 posted on 01/17/2021 10:23:51 PM PST by semaj (Death to Traitors)
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To: nutmeg

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22 posted on 01/17/2021 10:24:43 PM PST by nutmeg (Mega prayers for Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

It Is Not ‘Humane’ For The Atlantic To Sympathize With Killing Babies With Down Syndrome, Like My Little Sister
11/30/2020, 9:57:59 AM · by SeekAndFind · 6 replies
The Federalist ^ | 11/30/2020 | Evita Duffy
Recently, The Atlantic published an article, “The Last Children of Down Syndrome,” by Sarah Zhang, in which she explores the effects of prenatal testing in Demark. Denmark is among many Nordic countries that provide taxpayer-paid prenatal testing for Down Syndrome and other genetic anomalies. In Denmark, more than 95 percent of those who receive a DS diagnosis choose to abort their child. In 2019, only 18 children with Down Syndrome were born in the entire country.While Zhang claims to present readers what she calls an “emotional ground truth” by giving pros and cons to the DS abortion debate and “humanizing”...


23 posted on 01/17/2021 11:03:25 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Beijing labeled the movement a cult and suppressed it.

Sounds so flippant, not to explain in just what manner that suppression takes. Like saying, "Berlin labeled Judaism a cult and supressed it." Ho, hum... as if The Atlantic is saying concentration camps are just places people are sent on vacation, to collect their thoughts.

24 posted on 01/17/2021 11:09:13 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
[...] characteristics of its outlook include a distrust of medical doctors and a belief in malevolent, Earth-roaming aliens who created impious technology [...]

Yep, no chance of the members of this cult ever doing anything really weird, bizarre, and suicidal!

Here's wishing them well as they speed their way to paradise on the tail of the next comet! Hope that they stocked up on enough Flavr-Savr!

Regards,

25 posted on 01/17/2021 11:22:21 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
and a belief in malevolent, Earth-roaming aliens who created impious technology (such as video games).


26 posted on 01/18/2021 12:07:16 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Hope is not a plan. -- Matthew Bracken)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Bttt


27 posted on 01/18/2021 12:24:21 AM PST by Guenevere (When the foundations are being destroyed what can the righteous do)
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To: piasa

Yes. You hit the nail on the head.


28 posted on 01/18/2021 12:26:13 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Good one.


29 posted on 01/18/2021 12:27:46 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The ghey-ist Atlantic article this month. Overrating the Overrated Epoch Times, by Ghey Hyphenated-Soyboy


30 posted on 01/18/2021 12:34:23 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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To: a fool in paradise

That’s what I assumed. Don’t need to read this now.


31 posted on 03/21/2021 1:17:29 AM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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