Bitcoin as religion

Kacper Wikieł
Sep 1, 2018 · 2 min read

There are six major ingredients to make a religion, you don’t need them all, but it helps. They are:

False consciousness: a revelation that necessitates a new way of being

No more fiat. No more government. Only doge

Nemesis: a unifying enemy, also a scapegoat

Fiat money

Religious ecstasy: a glimpse of the transcendent. I will never be the same again.

“When I learned about bitcoin I imagined the cyberpunk future without trusted third party and without fiat money”

Dietary taboo: that which goes into a man’s mouth does, contra Christ, make him unclean

Proof of steak

Eschatology: a sense of how the world will end. Giving meaning to death also gives meaning to life.

  • evangelism.

Evangelism: the reproductive organs of an ideology; a phallusophy:

“Although religions contain sacred values and create stores of sanctity, it is possible for two people or groups to start with the same memeplex and yet have contradicting sacred values. This is one of the ways that memeplexes mutate.”

sacrifice, sacrament, sacred space, sacred time, sacred word, festivals, and myth.

Kacper Wikieł

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