I’m not sure I understand correctly the appeal to fear fallacy, is the following a good example?

“God’s Word teaches us that when a person dies they’ll spend eternity in one of two places: Heaven or Hell. Those who go to Heaven will spend forever in a perfect state, enjoying eternal blessings and communion with God. On the contrary, those condemned to Hell will suffer an eternity of agony in a place completely devoid of God and His blessings. This is the Bible. This is fact.”

It’s from this website:
http://ambrewster.wordpress.com/what-you-need-to-know/

dman wrote:

I’m not sure I understand correctly the appeal to fear fallacy, is the following a good example?

It’s from this website:
http://ambrewster.wordpress.com/what-you-need-to-know/

Hello Dman

To know if it is a manipulative propaganda, we need to know:?

What want from us the person that wrote the article and if he trying to make us take a ?decision without thinking. ?

What do you think about??

Bye, bye

I’d have to say that deductively the person is simply stating facts (or what he/she believes to be facts).  If I said “Don’t take another step, there’s a giant hole you’ll fall into”, I’m just stating the facts.

Almost any appeal to fear could be said that way beforhim. Beware of terrorists, elect me, I will get ride of them. I am just telling you the facts so you will be careful and vote for the right person to keep you safe…

TruePurple said:
“Almost any appeal to fear could be said that way beforhim.”

Yes, I totally agree.  But with the argument alone, without any other context, there is no fallacy.  This is why we, like Perla mentioned, need to find out the context surrounding the quote(s).

I went to the website.  I would agree if they were trying to say:
Either P or Q
Q is fearsome
Therefore, P is true.
However they don’t say those two support P being true.  They simply state that one choice is better.  I think at the reference point they’re using is that you believe the Bible is true and just telling you like the subject says “What You Need To Know”.  On their link “Taking Back The Bible” seems to support that assumption.

Michael