Dear Avira,
No. I’m not Chabad. Though I have been around a few. I guess you’ll be shocked to know the truth.
‘The Rebbe runs the world’ is a kabbalistic statement. ‘Whatever runs the world’ has to be a metaphor of some sort. Just to be clear, I’m not automatically defending the speaker.
I have nothing in common with the Rational Judaism folk. They lie when it is rational to do so. And they do not care about the truth. They care about ‘proving a point’.
Only chariedim stay around on this site after repeated criticism.