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Originally Posted by ardeegee
Again the target audience isn't true believers-- the audience is people who are willing to question. And a bit of satire/analogy can point out the silliness of beliefs (like the one about the hopping hamsters.) I don't expect the true believers to laugh along with me. The point is to show that something that they believe to the very heart of their being to be true and base their entire lives around to be silly superstition. It is saying that something that is taken very, very seriously by them, by their families, their friends, their community, and their culture is silly enough to be a big joke. In what way would you propose that one present that so that they "laugh with it" too? I don't think it likely to find a way that they won't be offended by that. We aren't attempting to laugh with them.
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I'm not sure that people who are sitting on the fence are going to be impressed with the side which is just cracking jokes at the others expense.