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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. In what way would you propose that one present that so that they "laugh with it" too? We aren't attempting to laugh with them.
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Again it's a sliding scale, and my feeling is that the more inclusive you can be the better the long term chance of real progress.
One way, though, is to poke a little fun at the extremes of both sides within the same joke/sketch. This can get everyone laughing, while still getting the basic facts across.
Graham