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		<title>Irrational Disbelief Syndrome</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Henshaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The marketing agency for FiberOne has launched a clever campaign called Irrational Disbelief Syndrome. The advertising campaign is a mixture of clever, stupid, and the absurd, but it&#8217;s all of those things on purpose. The premise is that their high fiber foods taste good and will help you lose weight. From the campaign&#8217;s perspective, that&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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The marketing agency for <a href="http://www.fiberone.com/">FiberOne</a> has launched a clever campaign called <a href="http://www.fiberone.com/copingwithdisbelief/">Irrational Disbelief Syndrome</a>. The advertising campaign is a mixture of clever, stupid, and the absurd, but it&#8217;s all of those things <em>on purpose</em>.</p>
<p>The premise is that their high fiber foods taste good and will help you lose weight. From the campaign&#8217;s perspective, that&#8217;s a <em>fact</em>, like gravity and the existence of bears. What&#8217;s interesting about the campaign is that they&#8217;re subtly attacking people with superstitious beliefs. The kind of beliefs that make the <a href="http://creationmuseum.org/">Creation Museum</a> possible.</p>
<p>The opening video on their Web site begins with a fake doctor, named Dr. Taggert Bane. He sets the tone of the campaign by stating:</p>
<blockquote><p>Irrational Disbelief Syndrome is when people are incapable of believing things that are universally understood to be true. Things like science, eggplants, and&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p>Believers who <em>disbelieve</em> in the logical, rational world around them, may end up protesting against this new marketing campaign, because it&#8217;s directly mimicking and making fun of them. However, I&#8217;m betting they don&#8217;t get it, in the same way they don&#8217;t believe &#8220;things that are universally understood to be true.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Focus on the Family Could Have Spent 2.8 Million On&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Henshaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christine Vyrnon had a productive rant about Focus on the Family spending 2.8 million dollars on a subtle pro-life, anti-choice commercial during the Super Bowl. She proposed that they could have spent: 2.8 million dollars on single mothers in poverty. 2.8 million dollars to lobby for the end of wars that kill or internally, externally [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Christine Vyrnon had a <a href="http://hotforjesusformerfundie.blogspot.com/2010/02/focus-on-phallic-i-mean-family-thank.html">productive rant about Focus on the Family</a> spending 2.8 million dollars on a <em>subtle</em> pro-life, anti-choice commercial during the Super Bowl. She proposed that they could have spent:</p>
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<li>2.8 million dollars on single mothers in poverty.</li>
<li>2.8 million dollars to lobby for the end of wars that kill or internally, externally maim sons and brothers and fathers like Tebow – instead of the simulation of war in the stadiums.</li>
<li>2.8 million dollars on any number of women and children – just for the hell of it.</li>
<li>2.8 million dollars for young men and women who want to explore the world before they try to teach their kids about the world.</li>
<li>2.8 million dollars to pay for a mother&#8217;s or child&#8217;s medical bills.</li>
<li>2.8 million dollars to pay grannie&#8217;s heating bills.</li>
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<h3>Focus on the Family&#8217;s Super Bowl commercial with Pam and Tim Tebow</h3>
<p>Here&#8217;s the commercial in question. As I said before, it&#8217;s very subtle, and it&#8217;s meant to be a teaser to get you to visit their Web site. I have to admit, I didn&#8217;t recognize Tim Tebow without the Bible verses taped to his face.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqReTDJSdhE&#038;fmt=18">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqReTDJSdhE</a></p>
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