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Subject: UFO UpDate: Ufo Cult Moving To Michigan
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From: RGates8254  [Robert Gates]
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 23:50:27 EST
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Subject: UFO cult moving to Michigan
Taiwanese Sect Off to Michigan
.c The Associated Press
 GARLAND, Texas (AP) - The faith still burns for the followers of
the True Way, though their divine path to salvation now leads to
Michigan.
The Taiwanese sect shrugged off the unrealized promises of their
leader: That God would appear in person Tuesday, or on television
last week on Channel 18.
Seven months ago, followers moved to this suburb of Dallas -
chosen because it's name sounds like ``God's land'' - to wait.
Most of the 160 followers in white clothes and white cowboy hats
now will move to Michigan. There, leader Chen Hon-ming says, God
will gather all worthy souls in a flying saucer and shuttle them
to Gary, Ind., to save them from a nuclear holocaust.
``Teacher Chen,'' leader of God's Salvation Church, did not admit
failure.
Instead, he gave a crowd of followers, reporters, neighbors and
police five minutes to decide whether to stone him to death. They
didn't.
``You yourself have become gods,'' Chen told the crowd. ``Now,
don't think of yourselves as just piles of bones and flesh or you
will die in the Great Tribulation.''
Speaking through an interpreter, he had a few warnings for those
who would listen:
Don't eat meat, or expect nightmares involving the dead animals,
and indigestion. Watch out for machinery - those who fail to care
for cars and trucks risk being run over while asleep in bed.
Other items like computers, toasters, and refrigerators may begin
moving around rooms and talking.
Church member Lin Hung-chih, 38, said he and others who follow
Chen and his ``zhen dao,'' or True Way, movement, had expected
the earlier prophecies to come true.
``Some were disappointed,'' Lin said. ``But I was not. It was a
beautiful experience.''
And he still has faith. Chen's sacred vision of flying saucers
``gives us hope,'' Lin said.
Chen said he and 10 followers will leave Garland today on a
flight to Buffalo, N.Y., before moving to Michigan to await
further instructions from God. Most of the rest will follow,
selling the houses they bought here in September.
About 20 of Chen's followers plan to return to Taiwan this week,
said Walter Hsu, a banker who had befriended followers of Chen's
movement.
The rest expect to be gone from Garland by May 10, said police
Lt. Don Martin.
Gone, too, was be the crush of media that descended on this
quiet, middle- class suburb for the promised TV appearance last
week, down on Tuesday to about 15 reporters.
With the seven-month buildup about over, feelings were mixed
among residents of the leafy, winding street where the sect
bought homes.
``I think P.T. Barnum couldn't have put together a carnival like
this,'' said Dick Beardsley, 81.
Others said they were pleasant neighbors. ``It was nice to see
them walking and cycling in groups,'' said Kia Vaandrager, 66.
The Rev. Jack David Daniels, the pastor of the First Baptist
Church, had his own predictions.
``People like this are a sign that we are living in the last
days,'' he said.
AP-NY-04-01-98 0455EST
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