Quote from: HenryRomp on August 16, 2017, 06:18:25 AM

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We are a sincere group of believers, and we equate our belief in the scripture (the whitepaper) by our prophet (Satoshi Nakomoto) and our living god (who is embodied in the blockchain itself) to the beliefs held by more traditional religions and religious groups.
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I would advise writing your own scriptures based on what Satoshi wrote in different areas.
Using the Whitepaper as a form of scripture will lead to major issues later, for your Church.

For example, the Whitepaper does not outline most of the aspects that exist within Bitcoin.
Though the paper was written as a possible answer to the puzzle of online currency, it was
actually programmed to be a form of E-Gold in reality, which is the basis for a possible
E-cash in time. Most people ignore that and cite the Whitepaper as proof that Bitcoin is
supposed to be an E-Cash by a few phrases within it, but ignore that Satoshi contradicted
those terms and phrases with his choices of rules and programming with the first software
client.

If you hold the Whitepaper to a form of "scripture", or the "first scripture", you will be held
to types of teachings that were never valid, even from day one of the real world
implementation. Though he said E-Cash, he programmed E-Gold. He assumed that by basing
a currency on Gold in conjunction with technological advances and the internet, it could be
possible to make a more advanced form of "Cash". That was it. Bitcoin is E-Gold with properties
that are like Cash, but it was not specifically programmed to be E-Cash. The blockchain system
actually prevents E-Cash from manifesting naturally without non-network systems intervention.
The blockchain system is an E-Gold facilitation mechanism first.

So, I would advise citing the Whitepaper as an important historical document for your Church,
but it should not be relied upon as the "supreme truth". The reality was that the Whitepaper
was Satoshi's attempt to get other people to seriously perform peer review of his solution.
So Bitcoin is like and could be an E-Cash, but only because it was programmed to be E-Gold.
His hope was that a currency or "cash" could come about from its programmed "gold" like
properties over time with technological advances still following the prior trajectories.

The truth is that Satoshi himself did not follow his own "Whitepaper's blueprints". So, when
the different groups within Bitcoin today fight and blame each other about different aspects
of the system and the direction it is or may be going into, they ignore that Satoshi didn't
even strictly follow the Whitepaper himself. So again, I advise you to base your Church
on Satoshi's higher end goals and beliefs and not the superficialities of terms and phrases.

Satoshi actually started something much greater than a working E-Cash or E-Gold.
The Whitepaper does not outline nor specify the more interesting aspects of this
system type that we participate in. Your Church should not worship Mammon.