I remember sitting in class and saying that a Roman Emperor was the first Pope (I'd heard about this out of class and wanted to be provocative).

My teacher immediately dismissed this as 'rubbish' and turned to chalk on the chalkboard.

To her credit, having a doctorate, she pondered it for a while, turned and commented that the emperor was, in fact, given some sort of priest title.

Keeping with the Bitcoin/Christianity parallels, that'd be similar to the president naming himself as first 'Bitcoin CEO' - and probably demanding the final say on Bitcoin's code (after trying to kill it for decades)...