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At www.beerchurch.com, the motto is “because beer is good and you are worthy.”

So, sure, they hoist a few.

“We are not a bunch of Homer Simpsons,” says Kendall Jones, the Beer Church director of operations, mug in hand. Nor do members worship beer, although they do consume beer religiously.

“Beer is good,” Jones writes on the Beer Church Web site. Beer is part of our culture, he says. “We hope to instill in people a sense of social responsibility that includes drinking responsibly.

“Be kind and giving, love one another, care about one another and help one another. Use beer as a way to do those things. That’s what the Beer Church wants to do.”

To make this deal absolutely irresistible, you can become an ordained minister of the bar-stool bunch. Follow the link to the Universal Life Church Web site, which can ordain you “easy, fast and free.”

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Edited by Cara DiPasquale ([email protected]) and Kris Karnopp ([email protected])