For many believers, bitcoin certainly has become a religion, in the most literal sense.
Bitcoin is not a religion - it is an insurrection.
Bitcoin's job is to make governments impossible to fund themselves
Sorry, but the belief that it is possible to get rid of governments, and that society will be better without them,
is religion. One cannot be convinced of that by argument or historical examples; one has to take it on faith.
More so for the belief that bitcoin will achieve that goal.
(By the way, Satoshi's goal when he described bitcoin was to design a digital cash system that did not require a trusted authority. Period. The implementation was only meant to verify that the design was correct. Period. Bitcoin was not intended to be a replacement for credit cards, a way to buy sex and drugs safely, to evade taxes, to dodge the SEC, to destroy dollars, gvernments and banks, to keep your savings safe from inflation, or to get rich; or even to be THE method of internet payment used by everybody in the future.)