I think we must not overthink that if we believe that something we can say that it is religion. Yes we have different beliefs and i do respect it.
Exactly, Joe mis-spoke, he meant that BITCOIN is a cult, to call bitcoin a religion is to offend all religions, bitcoin is a like scientology, its just a scam, to separate morons from their money.
"bitcoin is a scam, to separate morons from their money " - that is the best quote posted in this site in a long time !!