in Jerusalem because your father was a priest and his father was a priest before him. But if you were not the son of a priest, you could never become one. Quite different are the criteria for becoming a Christian minister: after an assessment of your suitability for the role, you become a Christian pastor or priest through training at seminary and then by working with an older minister. In Britain, the royal family is one of the few relics of traditional social organization that survives. You cannot
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