A divine pirate accountant. RP advice needed.

[Olondir]

So my friends and I going to be playing a nautical/pirate sandbox game and I thought it'd be fun to play a pirate accountant/Lawyer.

Since clerics are tricky and have those pesky alignment auras, I was thinking about playing a true neutral Cleric of Abadar. Pirate ships and thieves guilds are enterprises and have needs for lawyers and accountants as much as any other business, right? The god of the first vault gives him a shred of authority and legitimacy when he's cooking the books or making our ship's manifest to align with specs.

Now he'll certainly be at odds with the church as a whole. He's someone who worships the more capitalistic/entrepreneurial aspects of Abadar and less on the whole beauracracy/rule-of-law aspect. These odds can range from downright heresy to simple patronizing. Something much akin to a BBC correspondent looking down on a muckraker for "The Sun" or a Corporate lawyer looking down on an ambulance chaser.

I already have DM approval on this concept, but I wanted to open up to the online community for some ideas of some conflicts/rationalizations for my cleric, who worships the god of Excel Spreadsheets, to keep his divine powers.

Would anyone like to take a shot at helping me round out my case for why my cleric of Abadar should retain his powers while, simultaneously, be allowed to cook the books and cheat as legal counsel/accountants for pirates?

PS- I erred against being a cleric of besmara because the jolly rodger would not be a good symbol to represent "legitimacy" in the court of law (not to mention that aura of chaos). Asmodeous was also ruled out because my character 1.)isn't necessarily evil. 2.)Thinks a world of darkness and devilishness is even worse for the economy and human prosperity then what's there now.

[Movin]

Abadar is also a god of community and advancement along with law, so the Sepratist cleric archetype sounds like your deal.

You represent a splinter faction in the church as a whole, being that Abadar considers bandits a plauge and gives his paladins the holy mission of capturing them and getting them hanged or putting them to the sword if they resist.
Pirates do have a single feeble claim to legitimacy in pathfinder though. The captains counsel of the Shackles and the free captains represent a government, which makes them privateers rather than sea-bandits.

This does skirt the fact that Abadar has problems with folks who interrupt lines of trade. And capturing galleons filled with the trinkets of law abiding citizens or the collected gold of ignorant Tribals who know no better is going to result in most clerics of your faith taking issue with your choice of company.

So stick with folks who represent a major faction (like the free captains)
Make sure to have a way to escape as this could very easily land you in a bad place with either the pirates or the grand clerics of Abadar depending on who the captain of your ship chooses to attack.

[LazarX]

A better patron of choice would be Besmara, the divine patron of pirates.