Auburn Azazel
2005-06-29, 01:26
in an email to me for the universal life church.
"The Universal Life Church of Modesto, California has been sent your application for ordination from The ULC MONASTERY in Tucson, Arizona. Providing that you filled out the form properly with your legal first and last name, it will be approved and entered into the International Database of the Ministry of the Church, whose numbers are in excess of 20 million ordained ministers worldwide.
STATEMENT OF TENETS of the UNIVERSAL LIFE CHURCH
The Universal Life Church has only two tenets (beliefs/doctrines):
to promote freedom of religion and
to do that which is right.
It is the responsibility of the individual to determine what is right as long as it does not infringe on the rights of others and is within the law.
As a minister with the ULC, its own denomination, you are granted the following rights:
To perform marriages within your state, following the rules laid out by the state in which you wish to perform said marriage.
To perform funerals, baptisms, last rites or any other sort of legal ceremony or ritual you wish to perform, except circumcision.
To start a church of your own, be it a bricks and mortar building or on the internet.''
To absolve others of their sins as you have been absolved of yours.
i got this certificate to. i put it on my front door. whats the validity of this? can i actually do any of the above stated acts?
"The Universal Life Church of Modesto, California has been sent your application for ordination from The ULC MONASTERY in Tucson, Arizona. Providing that you filled out the form properly with your legal first and last name, it will be approved and entered into the International Database of the Ministry of the Church, whose numbers are in excess of 20 million ordained ministers worldwide.
STATEMENT OF TENETS of the UNIVERSAL LIFE CHURCH
The Universal Life Church has only two tenets (beliefs/doctrines):
to promote freedom of religion and
to do that which is right.
It is the responsibility of the individual to determine what is right as long as it does not infringe on the rights of others and is within the law.
As a minister with the ULC, its own denomination, you are granted the following rights:
To perform marriages within your state, following the rules laid out by the state in which you wish to perform said marriage.
To perform funerals, baptisms, last rites or any other sort of legal ceremony or ritual you wish to perform, except circumcision.
To start a church of your own, be it a bricks and mortar building or on the internet.''
To absolve others of their sins as you have been absolved of yours.
i got this certificate to. i put it on my front door. whats the validity of this? can i actually do any of the above stated acts?