If a religion founder teaches interracial marriage has bad consequences is it racist?

Question

Falun Gong founder Li Hongzhi teaches : Question: Children who’ve grown up in the U.S. aren’t so good with Chinese. Should they be sent back to China in the future? Teacher: I can tell you that I’ve been to many places abroad and I’ve found this problem everywhere, so when I see my disciples I often tell them this: Make sure you have your kids learn Chinese; you can’t lose the characteristics of your yellow race. Since there’s no place for you in the Caucasian paradises, you still need to return to the paradises of the yellow race’s people.

From the official Falun Gong site: http://www.falundafa.org/book/eng/mgjf.htm#_Toc511984050

Segregated heavens based on our colour of skin, even our souls are either white, black, or yellow.

Question: If people of mixed race practice cultivation, which paradise will they go to?

Teacher: As far as humans go, people of mixed race no longer have corresponding human races in heaven. If they’re cultivators, their outward appearances are no longer important and it all depends on the person’s Primordial Spirit (yuanshen). If his Primordial Spirit is of the white race, he’s white; if his Primordial Spirit is of the yellow race, he’s yellow;

Answer 1

Your original question doesn-t necessarily imply an answer of racism, even though I believe the concept is absolute hogwash.
The details you add, however, involve clear racism. If that is what falung gong teaches, then it is definitely a racist movement. Most if not all races have their forms of racism, and it is absolutely indefensible in all cases. What it really amounts to is extreme human pride or conceit.

Answer 2

Well, I can give you an answer based on the Holy Scriptures, though I'm not sure if that's what you're looking for.

The Bible explains that the soul dies at Ezekiel 18:4.

It explains that, at death, there is not consciousness that lives on beyond the death of the body at Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10.

Genesis 2:7 says regarding the creation of Adam: "And Jehovah God proceeded to form the man out of dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man CAME TO BE a living soul."

The scriptures do not teach that there is a separate spirit being that survives the death of the body to go to heaven. The Israelites had a hope in a resurrection or restoration of life to earth in paradise. Psalm 37:10, 11, 29 says, "And just a little while longer and the wicked one will be no more; and you will certainly give attention to his place, and he will not be. But the meek ones themselves will possess the earth and they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace...The righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will reside forever upon it."

There is also a hope for some to be resurrected to life in heaven to rules as kings over those who will live on the earth according to Revelation 5:9, 10. Verse ten explains, "..you made them to be a kingdom and priests to our God, and they are to rule as kings over the earth."

There are possible negative consequences to "interracial marriage." Just adding extra differences between mates like culture and language might make it more difficult than it seems to already be for people to remain married and to continue to understand and take care of each other.

But I think the real question to ask is why are so many people taught misconceptions about death in the first place? The Bible answers that too. It says, at 1 John 5:19, "...the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one." And we're given a loving warning to "Get out of her, my people, if you do not want to share with her in her sins, and if you do not want to receive part of her plagues," speaking of false religion illustratively as a harlot.

John 17:3 says, "This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ." Accurate knowledge of the scriptures is a safeguard to being deceived by false religious teachings galore.

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Answer 3

There are more hypocrites than you can imagine. In real fact all the races want that their own breed develop. A cross breed is never welcome. When one take birth the first thought that appear is how he/she will be married ? The trends of time, the easy laws , the mod attitude allow them to bow. They want to show they are broad minded, in fact look into the family matters of such a couple. None will approve. They do surrender when they are forced to accept defeat. A few communities do accept such a marriage only on the plea that the other one has accepted their religion. A youthful attraction that develop into a crush or a lust may develop ultimately into love, but that too is worn out with times. The opposers are demed to be racists, but there is more concern in the philosophers of the world.

Answer 4

Okay, it took me a bit to sort this out, so forgive me if my answer changes in mid-stride.
Have you seen the Matrix? He's basically comparing Heaven to that. You're form in Heaven is a visual representation of your spiritual self. If you are Chinese through and through, then you will be Chinese in Heaven. If you are mixed-race on earth, but raised in Chinese tradition, you will be Chinese in heaven. I think that's what he's saying.

The problem here is that we're trying to predict God's Kingdom based on a man-made template. I get the feeling that God already has this worked out and we should concern ourselves with such trivialities. Just do what you feel is right. Love the person, not there clothes.

Answer 5

What is written here is totally against the bible and the principals that we have been given to Live by.

For God is no respector of persons. He chooses whom he wishes when he wishes.

The bible never speaks of someones skin color, but does sometimes describe unique characteristics such as red skin and hairy body (showing that he looked different from the others).

We are all created by God and told to Love one another. There are no exceptions to this regarding skin color, eye color, hair color, body shape etc.

This is a false teacher and he should be placed with all other false teachers. In our knowledge of good and bad.

Answer 6

Do interracial marriages have bad consequences outside of religion? That depends on the society in which you live. Now, if you have a religious community in that society, are they exempted from the mores of that society? Certainly not. How is it wrong for the religious leader to try to protect the happiness of his followers?

Answer 7

My religion teaches that we all go to the same place, that our souls are only broken into two categories: those who believe and those who do not/ those who decide to disobey God and those who live to please God. I think that it is wrong to be biased and say there is a heaven for blacks, a seperate heaven for yellows, ect.... It is a completely human element to be so stupid as to believe that one color person is worth any less than another, or deserves a seperate heaven than the rest of us.

Answer 8

it is not a question of races, it is a question of culture, even though interracial marriages do have their own problems to deal with, they can be worked out if both members of the marriage are committed to making it work, where as intercultural marriages have a different problem with both members of the marriage having cultural shock.
but in Heaven there will be no racism and we will all be in the presence of God.

Answer 9

There is just one Heaven, created for all. God is not a respecter of persons. He created all races. He judges the hearts of mankind, not the color of their skin. Heaven is for all who believe. Race will not divide us there. There is no hate in heaven.
Hope you don't let that man's teachings influence you. It is racist and unloving. God is love.

Answer 10

Yes. It is none of his business or anybody elses except the people getting married and a belief such as that can only come from racism.