ALIVE Newspaper - Your opinion of it?

Dades

I wouldn't be surprised if they nicked that exclamation mark from Hello! magazine.

Or maybe Youth Defense nicked it and gave it to them.

lazygal

Dades wrote: »

I wouldn't be surprised if they nicked that exclamation mark from Hello! magazine.

Or maybe Youth Defense nicked it and gave it to them.

Maybe we should start calling it Youth Defence!

Sarky

More likely Youth Defendants, if they keep breaching copyright.

Hotblack Desiato

Deleted User wrote: »

The logic goes something like - RTE is full of godless socialists - therefore the news is propaganda - Avonmore sponsor the weather - boycott Avonmore

We haven't even mentioned Jean Byrne's scandalous outfits yet :pac: I think the average Barely Alive! reader has to switch off straight away lest their blood pressure rise to dangerous levels*









* with outrage not lust, durrr

Sarky

Jumpin' Jaysus, is that what weather girls wear these days? And here I thought RTE were squandering the license fees...

Turtwig

Sarky wrote: »

Jumpin' Jaysus, is that what weather girls wear these days? And here I thought RTE were squandering the license fees...

Not weather girls; meteorologists. They've got to show their distinction somehow!

Brian Shanahan

Jernal wrote: »

Not weather girls; meteorologists. They've got to show their distinction somehow!

Just because Jean likes dressing up doesn't mean she's not a proper meteorologist. Now them girls on RTE 2 are nothing but bimbos.

darjeeling

I finally caught the Alive! man just after the latest copy arrived through the letterbox. He looked like a willing volunteer giving up his time after work, rather than a paid leafletter. He was quite happy to take my copy back, though I think we both knew this was just the opening skirmish in a long campaign to come.

wonderfulname

wonderfulname wrote: »

Between the lines it's homophobic? Last time I checked it was blatantly so.

Just came across a copy of the current issue;

PopePalpatine

I noticed the usage of pseudonyms and initials on that list of donors - perhaps the donors are afraid of being outed as utter ****.

Nodin

I can't see 'homosexualist agenda' catching on.

Brian Shanahan

Two observations:

1) Bill Donahue does more by himself to hurt the cause of catholicism than any hundred anti-catholic organistations could. That man is a low creature.
2) It must really seethe amongst the kind of people who hate gays that the word "gay" is now universally associated with people of same sex or multi sex sexual drives. I imagine them sitting in a darkened room shouting "damn dem gheys! Dey took eerr werds!"

Hotblack Desiato

"Alive Says No To Gay Fronts, Yes To Straight Behinds"

Piliger

saspeir wrote: »

I find it utterly repulsive and offensive.

You are 100% right. And it includes the most offensive and disgusting so-called letters to the editor if I recall correctly.

lazygal

http://www.alive.ie/editors-jottings.html


Some of the crazy editor here.

swampgas

lazygal wrote: »

http://www.alive.ie/editors-jottings.html


Some of the crazy editor here.

"Our society needs a war on cohabitation".

It's a parody of itself. Wonderful stuff.

lazygal

It must be terrible for them to be locked into a bunker world without hope of heaven, to believe that life ends with death, that nothing ultimately matters.


There's a glum view of non believers.

eviltwin

swampgas wrote: »

"Our society needs a war on cohabitation".

It's a parody of itself. Wonderful stuff.

Good luck with that, they'l need it!

Hotblack Desiato

lazygal wrote: »

There's a glum view of non believers.

They're the glum ones locked into a bunker tbh.

ziedth

My first memory of this paper is being a young fella around the time mother Teresa die (I guess I was 10/11) and walking out of mass and seeing her face taking up the whole front page and "Alive" being the only word there. I innocently picked it up and ran to my mam shouting that she hadn't died. Got a clip around the ear for being a smartass....... haven't really read since but judging by those letters to the editor I might see can I find one for the craic

robindch

ziedth wrote: »

I might see can I find one for the craic

Behold, the internet provides. The last year's worth of this publication rests here:

http://www.alive.ie/archives.html

I went to mass on Christmas morning with my family and found a stack of these in the back. Having heard of its reputation I decided to take a copy to see how bad it really was.

It had a picture of Ellie Goulding on the cover, which made me curious; why would Ellie Goulding do an interview with a small time Catholic newspaper known for being a bit crazy? Unsurprisingly, she hadn't; basically they had just taken a few quotes from an interview she did with the Guardian and used them as part of some bizarre anti-divorce spiel.

There was also an article admonishing Stephen Hawking, suggesting his theory of a universe without a creator was unscientific. And instead of a proper obituary for Nelson Mandela (this was shortly after he died) there was a little piece that slated him for his support of "destroying the unborn" or however it was phrased. Pretty sure there was a few homosexual agenda tidbits in there too.

An...um....interesting read, if nothing else.....

shruikan2553

Not alive but I got a magazine called 4you.ie. Its made in Mayo and has some money if they are offering free books so Im assuming it evangelicals.
It had an article about how you might feel being gay is ok but God says it is bad and guess who knows better?
They doesnt like Jehovah's Witnesses.
Atheism is wrong because science shows what we think involves events that while can happen aren't likely to.

Brian Shanahan

shruikan2553 wrote: »

Not alive but I got a magazine called 4you.ie. Its made in Mayo and has some money if they are offering free books so Im assuming it evangelicals.
It had an article about how you might feel being gay is ok but God says it is bad and guess who knows better?
They doesnt like Jehovah's Witnesses.
Atheism is wrong because science shows what we think involves events that while can happen aren't likely to.

They have a website you know. And their magazines are online as well. Don't get sick from all the laughing now, you hear!

shruikan2553

Brian Shanahan wrote: »

They have a website you know. And their magazines are online as well. Don't get sick from all the laughing now, you hear!

Ah what have you done to me. Just read a little bit about how you might not believe because pf the hypocrisy of the church but look! The non believers caused Nazi Germany! So it all cancels out and God will punish them.

mikeym

I saw an article on co-habitation and I couldnt believe the crap I was reading.

Theres a lot of co-habituating couples in Ireland at the moment that either have no interest in marriage or they cant afford it.

Brian Shanahan

Brian Shanahan wrote: »

They have a website you know. And their magazines are online as well. Don't get sick from all the laughing now, you hear!

"Blown Away by the Man of Love - Leaving my Lesbianism"

Spoiler alert:

The man is Jesus!!1!

:eek:

:pac:

wp_rathead

Their stuff on secularism in this month's edition is beautifully worded bollocks

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Just looked at the 4you website.
This is pretty open of them:

Q. Are you a Christian?
I believe in doing good & helping others.
••• That’s great, but so do most people. That doesn't make you a Christian.

Often these Evangelicals like to claim all morality as Christian

Brian Shanahan

shruikan2553 wrote: »

Ah what have you done to me. Just read a little bit about how you might not believe because pf the hypocrisy of the church but look! The non believers caused Nazi Germany! So it all cancels out and God will punish them.

Where'd you see that? I missed it during my flick through.

shruikan2553

Brian Shanahan wrote: »

Where'd you see that? I missed it during my flick through.

Issue 8. Only a small peice along the right side.