All of the anger, dismay and demoralization from liberal Catholics over Pope Benedict XVI has gotten me thinking: whether in Catholicism or Protestantism, Islam or Hinduism, the job of the church to set guidelines, interpret scripture, and present an objective "truth" and moral code of optimal behavior, which believers can then accept and strive to follow, or reject and ignore. It strikes me that it isn't the church's job to query its members as to what rules they'd like to follow, and then make that the doctrine. If liberal Catholics don't like the church's rules, they are free to ignore them. It seems wrongheaded to expect the church to adapt its rules to fit the evolving popular culture: religion, almost necessarily, stands apart from and against the tide of culture. If it were to flow along with it, it would hardly be religion. Just my take...
At least my greatest fear didn’t happen: they’d choose a Pope from Africa, and, unaware with the nomenclature of American marketing, he would call himself “Urban.”
<%
dim done
done = request.form("done")
if done = "" then
done = "No"
%>
Tell a friend
<%
Else
if request.form("done") = "Yes" then
'sets variables
dim email, sendmail
email = request.form("email")
Set sendmail = Server.CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail")
'put the webmaster address here
sendmail.From = "webmaster@aspbasics.com"
'The mail is sent to the address entered in the previous page.
sendmail.To = email
'Enter the subject of your mail here
sendmail.Subject = "Check out this website"
'send a specific page or send a site url
dim url
'url = Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER")
url = "http://www.aspbasics.net"
'This is the content of the message.
sendmail.Body = "Site recommendation from a friend!" & _
vbCrlf & vbCrlf & "A friend has sent you this email and thought you would should check out this site." & _
vbCrlf & url & vbCrlf
'this sets mail priority.... 0=low 1=normal 2=high
sendmail.Importance = 1
sendmail.Send 'Send the email!
response.redirect Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER")
'Response.write ("Sent to ") & email
End if
End if
%>
"[T]he practice of arbitrary imprisonments, have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.' Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 84, August, 1788
