Quote from: ruykeri on Today at 12:26:44 PM

You have full right to compare anything with anything else, and you can share your opinion the way you want. But what I want to say is, before writing anything by comparing Bitcoin with religion (or anything else), we should think how much logic is really there.
I personally don’t think it’s right to compare Bitcoin with any religion. Because we should look at the purpose behind both. Religion always teaches people to stay on the right path. It helps people to be good, to live life honestly, and to stay away from bad things.
But Bitcoin’s purpose is not the same. People trust Bitcoin because they want to grow their money or become rich. But that doesn’t mean they always become good people. Many people in this world are using Bitcoin for bad activities too.
So I believe religion and Bitcoin are totally different things. They don’t match at all. That’s why, in my opinion, we should not compare Bitcoin with religion.

Thanks for the feedback. Let me disagree with you, though. You say, “Religion always teaches people to stay on the right path.” That is true about Abrahamic religions that appeared later. Those religions and faiths that were much earlier were tools for understanding how the world and nature worked – people imagined that a separate god was in charge of the sun, moon, wind, and lightning. They prayed to certain gods in the woods, worshipped gods of war. Some gods protected shepherds and cattle, gods in rivers and seas, etc. The religion of Ancient Greeks and Romans, or the Scandinavians did not preach staying on the “right path”. They had human sacrifices, and the goal was to have good contact with the gods so they would help you win battles and wars, rather than your enemies, or have a good harvest.

Besides, even Christianity now only formally teaches people to be righteous. The Vatican used to remove kings, Popes used to place their own kings on thrones, etc, they organized bloody Crusades. Many agree that the initial message of Christ has been utterly changed by the Church over time. So has been the original goal of Bitcoin – Satoshi did not create digital gold or a store of value. He created a decentralized P2P currency that would oppose banks. In this context, I think it is quite fair to compare Bitcoin with a religion. But that’s just my view of this, too.