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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: I sometimes wonder whether Bitcoin has established a religion.
by
Photony
on 25/05/2021, 01:54:43 UTC
Religion is a belief in supernatural. Bitcoin is nothing like that. Just because there are people devote to Bitcoin doesn't mean that Bitcoin is a religion. And as far as movements go, Bitcoin community isn't exactly monolithic, there are people of all sorts of political or ethical beliefs here. You don't even have to hate the government or fiat currency or banks to be a bitcoiner.
Religion is a social-cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements; however, there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.
This is the definition of religion in Wikipedia
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I think religion is a kind of consensus, and Bitcoin is maintained through consensus, so Bitcoin is something similar to religion
Consensus is particularly important in the Bitcoin system, as well as in religion. But the difference between the two is that Bitcoin is done by blockchain technology, while religion is done by preaching (sometimes it may be force coercion).
We believe in Bitcoin because we understand the technical support behind it. Those who don’t believe in Bitcoin have not even understood Bitcoin and blindly resist it. So I call popularization of blockchain knowledge a Missionary.