Hard to refute that when we have posts like these..

I plan to touch a bit on this tendency for bitcoiners to slip into religiosity later this week.

I semi-agree. I think religion serves a social function which is independent of its truth or falsity, but that doesn't mean the truthfulness of it, or the specific details of the religion don't matter.

I don't think you can say, for example, that it doesn't matter whether a society adopts Christianity or Islam, as long as it adopts one of them.

while the potential social utility of religion might not depend on it's "truthfulness", the actual ability of religion to provide benefits to society does depend on it's "perceived truthfulness" to some degree.

taking myself as an example, I'm not religious, never have been. in fact, I'm fairly convinced that it's all just mythology. no matter how good of a case you could make for the social utility of a religion, it's unlikely to convince me that the religion is actually true. that limits the social utility of the religion because at least one member of the society has a high barrier to adopt it as a personal moral guide or philosophy.

in this regard, the social utility of religion does depend on it's truthfulness (or at least, on its ability to appear truthful). an untruthful religion is necessarily fragile in its capacity to permeate a society homogenously and persistently, because once the seeds of doubt are sown, the validity of the religion as truth will always be questioned, and it therefore is unlikely to be fully adopted by everybody in the society. a society with various different religions, and a mix of religious and non-religious groups will not gain the benefits of a society that has a single religion.

Humans are weak and vulnerable as individuals but in groups we gain power, security and environmental dominance. Religions create a narrative which people can adopt and follow - it creates the potential for 'us and them' dynamics which can then be used to justify conflict between competing groups. This process is fundamental to life and the DNA that codes it. The competition for territory, energy and resources that underpins all known life.

Bitcoin however proposes a revolutionary new narrative- one with a narrow focus upon the monetary protocol which is nonetheless very important to how large organised human groups operate.

Bitcoin removes any religious or political control or leverage over the way in which people can trade between each other, and treats all participants in a strictly equal manner with no fear or favour.

In a world where power is now being increasingly concentrated via protocols, Bitcoin is unique in being a protocol that decentralises power and distributes power rather than concentrating it.

Bitcoin discourages debt slavery- something that most religions also fought to discourage if not outright banish. Jesus and Mohammad would surely have approved of Bitcoin.