I did it as a joke, mainly, to stick a thorn in the side of my ex-stepfather and his <ahem> partner because they claimed to be such completely devout Christians and prided themselves on their "spirituality" and "holiness". They lied, cheated, and stole from the company my ex-stepfather owned and I was trying to save from bankruptcy all the while.
Buffoons. They destroyed hundreds of dollars of my CDs because they were "evil" (AC/DC, etc), burned my collection of SPI and Avalon Hill wargames (which are valued in the hundreds if not thousands today), melted down almost a full division of 15mm hand-painted American Civil War miniatures and 1/285th scale modern armor (also hand-painted), and destroyed an Epic: 40K collection (also hand-painted and a couple of which were gifts to me from a fellow gamer who'd gone all out on those models) that would be worth over a thousand dollars today. They burned a copy of Fletcher Pratt's Naval Wargame for crying out loud in their zeal.
All while I was elsewhere involved at court or with the IRS or with the CPA or our lawyer trying to save their worthless asses by saving their company.
My ex-stepfather stiffed my mother when he sold their house (twice, once for one property, once for another).
My ex-stepfather and his partner ordained each other, cheated churches out of speaking fees, misrepresented themselves, and gathered donations from churches and churchgoers which were then channeled toward a failed scheme of trying to reopen a 6 thousand foot gold mine in the California hills that was filled with 4 thousand feet of cyanide-contaminated water.
Yeah, I got my ordainment and my degrees, back in 2000 or thereabouts, to basically rub their noses in the fact my ordainment and the Doctor of Divinity were legal in all 50 states and they didn't have a leg to stand on.
Just to be clear, I've never used my ordainment to perform weddings, baptisms, nor funerals, but I'm allowed to if I choose to, and I've never used my DD (legal, honorary) or PhD (non-accredited except by an unofficial, unrecognized IAA that's based in the same city the ULC is) to obtain employment of any kind.
It's fun to wave it around sometimes though.