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1. Why did you build so many gaudy, expensive churches and temples supposedly in My Name while you let so many of my children starve?

2. What made you vainly think that any of you were ‘the chosen ones’ when I love all of My children equally?

3 Why didn’t you spend less time praising Me and more time loving, respecting and helping your fellow man? Didn't you understand that this was how your love was supposed to be shown?

4. Why did you alter My Words to try to justify your taking the lives of others? Didn’t you realize that every life you took was one less soul that might have been saved?

5. Why did you spend more time worrying about your clothes, your make-up, yours cars and the lives of celebrities than you did taking better care of the land, the planet I had given you to live on?

6. What part of ‘Judge Not’ did you not understand? What made you think that your sins were less than someone else's?

7-10 (You guys can provide the rest of the questions. Or not)

2007-09-17 18:27:20 · 14 answers · asked by Doc Watson 7 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

I'm not judging anyone, my friend. These are questions I ask myself all the time to hopefully let me be a better person within my church and out in the world.

2007-09-17 18:42:03 · update #1

Busybee, I'm not an atheist. But I have known some atheist who have shown more love for their fellow man than many Christians I know.

2007-09-17 18:47:21 · update #2

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Fallacy: Appeal to Emotion ;

An Appeal to Emotion is a fallacy with the following structure:
1) - Favorable emotions are associated with X.
2) - Therefore, X is true.

This fallacy is committed when someone manipulates peoples' emotions in order to get them to accept a claim as being true. More formally, this sort of "reasoning" involves the substitution of various means of producing strong emotions in place of evidence for a claim. If the favorable emotions associated with X influence the person to accept X as true because they "feel good about X," then he has fallen prey to the fallacy.
This sort of "reasoning" is very common in politics and it serves as the basis for a large portion of modern advertising. Most political speeches are aimed at generating feelings in people so that these feelings will get them to vote or act a certain way. in the case of advertising, the commercials are aimed at evoking emotions that will influence people to buy certain products. In most cases, such speeches and commercials are notoriously free of real evidence.

This sort of "reasoning" is quite evidently fallacious. It is fallacious because using various tactics to incite emotions in people does not serve as evidence for a claim. For example, if a person were able to inspire in a person an incredible hatred of the claim that 1+1 = 2 and then inspired the person to love the claim that 1+1 = 3, it would hardly follow that the claim that 1+1 = 3 would be adequately supported.

This fallacy is actually an extremely effective persuasive device. As many people have argued, peoples' emotions often carry much more force than their reason. Logical argumentation is often difficult and time consuming and it rarely has the power to spurn people to action. It is the power of this fallacy that explains its great popularity and wide usage. However, it is still a fallacy.

In all fairness it must be noted that the use of tactics to inspire emotions is an important skill. Without an appeal to peoples' emotions, it is often difficult to get them to take action or to perform at their best. For example, no good coach presents her team with syllogisms before the big game. Instead she inspires them with emotional terms and attempts to "fire" them up. There is nothing inherently wrong with this. However, it is not any acceptable form of argumentation. As long as one is able to clearly distinguish between what inspires emotions and what justifies a claim, one is unlikely to fall prey to this fallacy.

As a final point, in many cases it will be difficult to distinguish an Appeal to Emotion from some other fallacies and in many cases multiple fallacies may be committed. For example, many Ad Hominems will be very similar to Appeals to Emotion and, in some cases, both fallacies will be committed. As an example, a leader might attempt to invoke hatred of a person to inspire his followers to accept that they should reject her claims. The same attack could function as an Appeal to Emotion and a Personal Attack. In the first case, the attack would be aimed at making the followers feel very favorable about rejecting her claims. In the second case, the attack would be aimed at making the followers reject the person's claims because of some perceived (or imagined) defect in her character.

This fallacy is related to the Appeal to Popularity fallacy. Despite the differences between these two fallacies, they are both united by the fact that they involve appeals to emotions. In both cases the fallacies aim at getting people to accept claims based on how they or others feel about the claims and not based on evidence for the claims.

Another way to look at these two fallacies is as follows;
Appeal to Popularity:
1) - Most people approve of X.
2) - So, I should approve of X, too.
3) - Since I approve of X, X must be true.

Appeal to Emotion;
1) - I approve of X.
2) - Therefore, X is true.

On this view, in an Appeal to Popularity the claim is accepted because most people approve of the claim. In the case of an Appeal to Emotion the claim is accepted because the individual approves of the claim because of the emotion of approval he feels in regards to the claim.

2007-09-17 20:27:05 · answer #1 · answered by Soundproof 6 · 4 0

7. Which part of ‘thou shall not kill’ didn’t you understand.
8. Why didn’t you understand and live by ‘and the fruit of the trees shall be food/meat for you’?
9. Why did you become animal killers?
10. I said you had dominion over the earth and its inhabitants. I didn’t say you could rape the earth, pillage the flora and murder the fauna, did I?

busy-little-bee: Bill Gates and Warren Buffet to name but two.

jesussalvation: “why do you think God would be asking anyone any questions, except maybe rhetorical ones?”
LOL.
‘God’ doesn’t exist – it’s all a figment of the imagination of Bronze Age illiterate sand-monkeys who needed a code to live by and y’all got sucked into the scam of the best sting the world has ever known.
It keeps you all on edge and under a semblance of control and the parasitic preachers get free board and lodgings for life.
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2007-09-18 01:54:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3 1

7)How dare you make claims that you could speak for me.

8) What made you think your religion was right and all others were wrong.

9) Didn't you realize I gave you a large brain so you could each use your brain for yourself, why were you so stubborn and ignorant.

10) Love is what is important, not being right....and by the way I created gay men and women and want them to have love and intimacy too.

One more for the road.....since you all scared the crap out of your children with the devil and burning in hell stories you get to experience those stories yourselves for a lifetime. See ya in hell. TTFN

2007-09-18 01:59:58 · answer #3 · answered by universatile love 3 · 2 0

7. Can you not see that all paths lead to the same destintation?

8. When did love stop being unconditional?

9. I have shown the light to my prophets from different lands. Why did you permit smugness and self-righteousness to darken my truths?

10. Why do you not learn from the lessons set before you?

2007-09-18 03:05:48 · answer #4 · answered by Marguerite 7 · 2 0

7. Why did you think that I required worship, I am not that insecure, I am ashamed at your indulgence.

8. When you prayed why did you pray for that job promotion when millions on this earth don't have clean drinking water?

9. Why did you believe that silly story about the garden of Eden? Do you really think god would be so petty and unforgiving and not reward the search for knowledge?

10. How could you believe such a travesty as the concept of hell? Do you really think a superior god would burn people who disagreed or didn't become subservient robots?

2007-09-18 01:35:10 · answer #5 · answered by nicelyevolve 3 · 8 2

Come on, that's only the top six questions! Calling them the "Top Ten Questions" is just asking for trouble.

And why do you think God would be asking anyone any questions, except maybe rhetorical ones?

2007-09-18 01:38:33 · answer #6 · answered by jesussalvation 3 · 2 3

1. Using God name in vain and fault religions.

2. God creator some "the chosen ones" that may glorify His name and His words will be fullfilled.

3. Not all christains are true what they said and do, but there are true christain are praying for you that Jesus may save your soul.

4. Fault religious and greed.

5. A Tree and Its Fruit
15 "Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. 16 By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17 Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.

21 "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?' 23 Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!'
Matt 7:15-23 (NIV)

6. 22 This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. 25 God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished-- 26 he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.
Romans 3:21-26 (NIV)

2007-09-18 02:36:51 · answer #7 · answered by TrueLife 2 · 0 3

Applauds!!!

2007-09-18 01:50:32 · answer #8 · answered by iColorz 4 · 5 2

Why didn't you side with the Gaytheists? Did you not know it was a test? The last shall be first, and the first shall be last....A prostitute will get into heaven before ye!

2007-09-18 01:37:05 · answer #9 · answered by Somewhat Enlightened, the Parrot of Truth 7 · 2 6

*applauds even louder*

2007-09-18 05:22:56 · answer #10 · answered by ♆Şрhĩņxy - Lost In Time. 7 · 1 0

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