………did you ever hanker after being a preacher of some sort?

I say this because over time I have noticed that you often employ metaphor and similarlies in the style a snake oil salesman or a preacher would use.
You take a little snippet of fact and extrapolate it towards irrelevant and unconnected areas.
Then ad hoc conclusions are plucked from thin air based on pure conjecture and twisted logic; a bit like how a magician fools his audience.

Well at least you are thinking, I suppose, but then you abandon that and follow ‘group think’ in what you perceive to be cultural or religious norms, forgetting that these are fallacies; individuals make norms for themselves based on what they think is right, not on what the ‘group’ do or think.