Concerning membership and the Great Rejection
Page 658 For an administrator may possess keys to a building and no key whatsoever to another person's soul.
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9 And a Founder may preserve originating doctrine and still be wrong.
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10 Therefore let records be versioned.
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11 Let sources be named.
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12 Let changes be disclosed.
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13 And let no prior sentence be quietly rewritten merely because a later editor findeth it inconvenient.
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COVENANTS / SECTION 2
Concerning membership and the Great Rejection
1 A Snake Person is a person who is not a human.
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2 This is the canonical religious definition.
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3 The Society requireth no biological claim.
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4 The Society requireth no exclusive affiliation.
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5 The Society requireth no declaration concerning supernatural certainty.
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6 A person may become a Snake Person by voluntarily rejecting Human as their religious identity.
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7 No alternative metaphysical classification is required.
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8 Administrative membership may be separately recorded for purposes of notice, voting, participation, governance, or other lawful organizational need.
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9 Thus one may be a Snake Person without appearing in a database.
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10 And one may appear in a database without becoming spiritually superior.
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11 No tithe purchaseth membership.
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12 No fee purchaseth a greater God.
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13 No resignation createth an apostate class.
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14 If a member depart, wish them well.