Religions historically have been used as a mechanism to control the masses. When you think about our minds in terms of how computers operate it's easy to see the manipulation tactic. With hacking the basic idea is to fool a person into thinking you're some kind of authority. Then access is granted to whatever you want on the hard drive. With religion they use what I call the god file. The ultimate authority that cannot be questioned. Any idea presented under the god file is by nature not questioned.
Then what they do is lock you in with fear of questioning by telling you that you will be punished in the afterlife if you question. Questioning and critical thinking is our antivirus. That's why religious people often act with a seemingly confused moral compass. The religious mind refuses to question dogma. They seek to hold up ideas no matter how far fetched they are. In comparison the scientific mind or the mind that has a healthy antivirus seeks to deconstruct ideas so the errors will be discarded and truth enthroned.
All that to say the religious system is a system of punishment and reward. The system appears to be set up to keep people doing good and helping their fellow humanity. This raises the question for me can we set up a system using technology that actually accomplishes what we are told the mission of Jesus was. Jesus said throw out the law and live by love. That is something even the most staunch atheist can agree with.
As I've been looking into blockchain technology I can't help but to wonder if we can use it to first decentralize power then make the most valuable action in society is to help and lift up our fellow man. Just as the blockchain incentivized miners to mine bitcoin to create wealth for themselves. What if we set up a blockchain program where people mine coins by helping others.
The rhythm of our current system is I get mine by taking from you. Or I lift myself up by keeping you down. What we need to do is somehow think of a way to give incentive for good actions. Use blockchain that rewards people for following the golden rule. Use blcokchain to incentivize mankind to live by, I make myself better by making you better. It's still in the initial phases of my mind so I'm looking to refine the idea as I learn more. Let me know what you think. Is it possible?