Hi. Yes, to answer your question, I am an ordained minister. Nope; not a preacher… Ive studied religions since I was a child, and, one day, I got annoyed watching some Bible-thumping occurring at an airport. I walked up, and gave them exactly what they wanted.. Questions.. But when I started to dispute their responses, quoting chapter and verse back at them, then going into the Greek and Aramaic to do so, apparently I irritated them enough that they felt the need to be somewhere else and left. Two members of another religious group (who were handing out literature, but not accosting people like those I talked with) promptly took me to lunch, and Ive stayed in contact with the ever since. A few years back they decided that even if I didnt share their specific faith, with the amount of teaching I have done, I really should be a priest of some sort, and, with my consent, they had me ordained.

I have no brand of religion I want to convert anyone too (Ive studied them too much; the closest I have is a strongly held philosophy); in fact, Ive unconverted several who were taken in by cultist methods by various groups. I harbor no ill will to any group, save those who choose to use trickery, demagoguery, or simple dominance as their method of conversion.

So now you know. :)