The dark side of religion is that is can separate people, cause them to judge others (even though they teach otherwise), and worst of all, close the persons mind to new ideas. I dislike the fact that religions try to tell you "this is how it is", and you are supposed to take it all on faith, and if you get new information about the world, you are supposed to ignore it and keep on "believing" in the simple ideas and stories that religions teach.

"For example, the fact that they are the most moral society in the world is one of the most basic beliefs of Israeli society,"

Well I bet that makes them feel good about themselves, doesn't it.

I think Israel should be evacuated and nuked, maybe that will end the conflict, because there would be nothing left to fight over.

This news will not come as a surprise to people like Steven Colbert.

Uh, isn't this a fancy name for satire ??

"For an outsider, it can sound like a joke ... reported almost a 30 percent increase in their willingness to re-evaluate".

Using different approaches to attitude should be effective, unless those that are moved by a particular approach are the same that are moved by other such. Many has long maintained that joking, ridiculing, satire et cetera are effective re creationism as everywhere else, as opposed to accommodationism - and you can have jokes and ridicule that seemingly agree - with the upshot that these methods are neither ethically problematic (no inherent lying) nor difficult to apply.

I am going to recommend this thread to the following pedants:-
Cap'n Grumpy
Aunty Irene
Gawphard
Furbrain
etc.

Yea, Obama is the greatest leader that ever was or ever will be. Anyone who ever voted for him is the smartest person around. Obama is handling the invasion of the USA southern boarder well. It is great that he and the democrats orchestrated the invasion of illegals. Obama and the democrats are right in using the IRS, the DOJ, and the EPA and other government entities to go after those that disagree with them. Wow, did you see how well he handled the news conference about the Jet that was shot down. It was great that he donated 30 seconds to all the people killed before he started on his jokes and his lies on how well he saved the US economy. He is great at selling guns to drug dealers. He is great at blaming a unknown film maker for a terrorist attack. His support for Israel WOW.

Anyone who votes Democrat the next election, wow what smart people they are for voting for lying, cheating, criminal loving, anti Americans.

"There is also a risk of backfire - some people in the study took the videos at face value, assimilating the extreme messages into their personal beliefs. And, of course, nothing would stop governments or organizations from employing the same technique to promote their own agendas."

I strongly agree...

Yea, Obama is the greatest leader that ever was or ever will be. Anyone who ever voted for him is the smartest person around. . . . yada, yada, yada . . .

You want to be a pundit? I gently suggest you don't quit your day job. You might also want to tune in the previously mentioned Cobert to see how it's done. For extra credit, try to figure out why it will always work better for him than for you.

I agree with all you crazy Obama supporting Global warming believers.
Global warming is happening, even though earth has been cooling slightly for the last 14 years.
Yup, polar bears are dying out, even though their numbers are increasing.
Yup, sea levels are rising which is why Profit Al Gore is buying up mansions on nice ocean front property.
Yup Obama and the Democrats health care system is the best, even though less people now have insurance, insurance costs have increased significantly, and oh the money spent (or given away) to his donors who built the wonderful health care website, hey they deserved the money.... so that they could funnel it back to Obama and the Democrats.
And the way Obama and the Democrats have engineered the Boarder crises of babies and criminals flooding the boarder, Wonderful.

You Democrats and Progressives care so much for people as long as you can use them for your purposes.

I am going to recommend this thread to the following pedants:-
Cap'n Grumpy
Aunty Irene
Gawphard
Furbrain
etc.

Reg is referring to http://phys.org/n...ght.html where we gave him a thorough drubbing for his half-cocked, poorly thought out ideas. Notice how he gets so much reprisal because of the way he presents himself as an authority on a subject about which he understands very little. Pay close attention to his identification of numerical calculations as "equations" and on his dismissal of mathematics based physics reasoning as "meaningless equations", despite his avoidance of providing his own MEANINGFUL equations to support his own preposterous claims. Notice, also the risible example of self-awareness failure that is his suggesting we apply the hypothesis of this article to convince him. Admittedly, we could have done that, but then we would be cheating honestly curious laymen out of solid physical reasoning just to convince one crackpot.