Principles can exist without religion, y'know.  Arguably, they flourish without it.  Balls to religion.  I'd rather see people being capable of judging right from wrong without needing to be bribed with the promise of heaven or threatened with the prospect of hell.  If someone requires such an incentive to be a good person, they're probably just a bad person masquerading as a good one.  Besides which, obsessions with superstition and fables is unproductive when discussing technology.  Maybe leave that crap out of it?

If you use Bitcoin, you accept the fundamentals of its design.  In the same way an upstanding person wouldn't renege on a deal, they equally wouldn't wish to breach the principles that Bitcoin was founded upon.  Changing it would effectively be pulling the rug out from under everyone who already accepted it as it is.  It's not fair to move the goalposts like that.