Agreed. If money is a god then we are, at the very least, the Protestant
movement.

1521: sola scriptura, sola fide
2013: Banking ohne Banken

The parallels are just too obvious.

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Jaromil <jaromil@???> wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, blokey philips wrote:
>
> > HAHHA If money is "the new God" then dear old Pope Francis must be the
> > new high priest.
> >
> >
> http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/03/08/wealth-of-roman-catholic-church-impossible-to-calculate/
> >
> > thinking about the religious Bitcoin propaganda...bloodey good
> > question
>
> good point. I think however that we really don't need to polarize
> against such statements, which are and must be referred to the old world
> in which money was a hierarchy, a Taboo, somehow and for some a "God".
>
> Both the Roman and the Protestant church communities have contributed to
> this state of things and, as you well point out, provided the very
> infrastructure for it to happen. Meanwhile I believe Bitcoin is a
> completely new start at the definition of an money and the conditions
> for it to be generated, to exist and to be exchanged, which are
> preconditions for the perception humans have now and will have of it in
> the future.
>
>
> So to say, we are likely to be the solution, not the problem.
>
> ciao
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