# Can I call myself a preacher?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-call-myself-a-preacher/625304
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 16, 2012, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-call-myself-a-preacher/625304 "2012-06-16T00:54:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Mewl\_Dear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mewl_Dear)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2012, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-call-myself-a-preacher/625304/1 "2012-06-16T00:54:16Z")
I was watching the news and the subtitle said Preacher Bill whatever. It got me to thinking. If I talk to no end on some useless and unprovable fallacy can I be called a preacher?
I know about the cat in the barn that communicates with the snakes in the grass.
Would you like to hear more?
preacher apprentice mewl
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### Author:  [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2012, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-call-myself-a-preacher/625304/2 "2012-06-16T01:17:52Z")
You can call yourself pretty much anything you please. I can call myself “Reverend Balance of the Church of Kinetically Mediated Karma”, if I want. (I’ve even got a nice little ordination paper somewhere from the Universal Life Church.)
What other people will call you is a different question, and if they’re aware that you don’t have a flock of some sort, it’s not likely to be “Preacher”.
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### Author:  [@Mewl\_Dear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mewl_Dear)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2012, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-call-myself-a-preacher/625304/3 "2012-06-16T01:23:47Z")
Sweet. Pope Mewl the 500ear I am.
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### Author:  [@Mewl\_Dear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mewl_Dear)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2012, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-call-myself-a-preacher/625304/4 "2012-06-16T03:02:03Z")
So the cat meowed in my ear that the snake said hiss!
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### Author:  [@Mewl\_Dear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mewl_Dear)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2012, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-call-myself-a-preacher/625304/5 "2012-06-16T03:17:08Z")
kneel bitches