I think you meant to say "Technology".
Religion is a social technology. Encryption is a communication technology. Peer-to-peer is a networking technology. Bitcoin is a monetary technology. Insurance is a financial technology. AK-47s are a violence technology.
Any or all of these things can resist governments. I would argue religion is one of the least-well suited and most liable to cause other (probably worse) problems.
Everything is technology in a sense. It's not a very helpful category. The way I like to define technology is "something created by man, which in turn shapes man". While I would argue that _certain_ religions are not man-made, making them not technology, I agree that many are.
What religions in general have in common is more than just a social dimension (law, language, music, and technology in general are all social). Rather, they all involve an orientation toward a Transcendent Good, whose aim is to free adherents from the problems of the mundane. Some religions do a better job at this than others, depending on the reality of the transcendent good they point to, and how successfully they maintain a pure form of that doctrine.
Which ones aren't man-made?
The true ones. This is a claim most (but not all) religions make about themselves. If you want to talk seriously about religion, you have to address that claim.
"True" meaning what in this case?
I mean... _I_ don't have to address that claim. Or I at least don't have to defend it. The multiple religions that are each claiming to be the "true ones" need to address and defend it.
Sure, the burden of proof is on them. The question of religious truth is beside the point of the original discussion, I just felt compelled to mention it as an adherent of a religion I'm convinced is true. The point I was making is: if a religion is true, it is not technology.
And if all religions aren't true, then they are all technologies. Which was my original point in my reply to your OP ;)
But agreed that we don't have to get into the question of religious truth here. We can leave it at the "IFs and THENs" of our various positions
