Comments on: Our Alternative Christmas Message – how did viewers respond?

By: StephenLK

StephenLK — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:54:48 +0000

Just an introduction. Glad to be here, I’m new. Saying hi to all you all.

SLK

By: Twockin

Twockin — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:48:29 +0000

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By: minnickup

minnickup — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:06:40 +0000

Greeting,
Thanks for the blogs.channel4.com forum. There seems to be a never ending supply of great information on the net. I love learning new stuff, and will be back to read forum posts regularly! Thanks again.

By: Tina Louise

Tina Louise — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:42:30 +0000

We will only understand each other better when the media behaves as Channel 4 has done with this broadcast.

I want to hear every viepoint before feeling where I stand on issues… being informed is so important.

Thank you for this glimpse into other views.

By: TC

TC — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:46:28 +0000

Dorothy Byrne’s assertion that this was an imperative broadcast on the grounds that it offered ‘an alternative world view’ was knowingly naïve and therefore condescending. President Ahmadinejad’s speech was predictable and uneventful and the idea that it might provide an insight into the true workings of his mind was an intellectual idyll. It was as insipid as a Blairite smile, similarly lacking in detail and authenticity. The neurotic press coverage leading up to the broadcast now all seems a little ironic, as it was anything but controversial. To quash any doubts surrounding Ahmadinejad’s tolerance and passivity, the producer might have insisted he wear a Father Christmas outfit. Intermittently and with grammatical aptness Western children would take it in turn to sit on the President’s knee and divulge their festive wish lists. At home the 400,000 Guardian readers watching would be kept warm by their gratuitous conceit, safe in the knowledge that it had been another politically correct Christmas. The only piece of information provided by this broadcast which might irresponsibly be referred to as useful was the confirmation that all world leaders, be they Christian or Islamic, are as deluded as one another. The belief that religion can solve the world’s problems is akin to the absurd idea that witches would float.

By: Nancy Sampson

Nancy Sampson — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:47:46 +0000

I was upset when a scholar on the programme said the St. Paul was anti-semitic which he certainly wasn’t. He asked the hypothetical question, ‘Has God abandoned His people’ in which he replied, ‘Heaven forbid it’. He also told gentiles not to be above themselves because the roots (Jews) support the branches and not the other way around.