Sedj on Nostr: To continue a little further down the path of history of religions, the important ...

To continue a little further down the path of history of religions, the important question to ask is why?

Religions are sustained (if not created) for a desired effect on a population. We can call this social engineering. They may be instituted to bring people together for economic reasons, for instance to serve a populace in agriculture or development/building projects. They may be adopted to generate wealth for the powerful. They may be used to incite people to violence on behalf of the state, or to divide people so as to distract them from the actions of the state.

Religions are statist, make no mistake. This is not the same as saying beliefs are statist, but when those beliefs are manipulated by the state, for the benefit of the state, then we are once again dealing with statism.

This is why I find it contradictory and hilarious that religions such as Christianity and Islam have such a strong following among bitcoin "sovereigns". The very nature and intent of those religions is statist. Whatever happened to don't trust, verify? Good luck out there, but all I see is a divergence that cannot be resolved without abandoning either bitcoin or religion.