Im not familiar enough with Islam or Sufism to say. Judaism is even more decentralized.

I don't know. Judaism has a clear job description for their priests.

These days it’s pretty much “be careful around cemeteries, carry this thing on Simchat Torah, and that’s about it. Do not rely on Christian education resources about Jews to understand Jews. You are not getting it from an honest broker.

I'm not interested in the actual structure of judaism. I'm pointing out that buddism is very much a religion, even in the most hierarquical ways possible. It's not mostly thinking.

Judaism hasn't had any Priests in about 2000 years, and even when we did the High Priest wasn't "the" head of the religion.

So what does a Rabbi do?

Is it not a priestly figure? In the manner of a catholic priest, or an immam?

A Rabbi teaches and leads services in a post-Temple age, but is a different office from Kohen, who were Priests. Some of an Imam's office maps, but also a Mullah. Catholic Priesthood doesnt really have a Jewish equivalent.

Point being, there's a clear and differentiated route for those who are "teachers" of the religious doctrine. I'm don't know if that is the same for buddism. There's probably and equivalent.

There are certainly formal teaching roles in Buddhism, with similarities and differences with formal teaching roles in Judaism. But neither of them are Priestly roles, nor do they form a single hierarchy with a single person at its top.

I mean, this is *textbook* Christian-worldview-centric athiesm. It’s quite kind of him to drop in and demonstrate so clearly! bsky.app/profile/biba...