That view implies and required the acceptance of a God, though - it's like saying that gravity itself is the ultimate expression of protestantism (not sure if your post is supposed to be a /s).
No, not necessarily. You can be psychologically influenced by a society imbued with religious moral undertones to the point where you unwittingly want to "prove yourself" to "some omnipotent other." I think it's fairly common, actually.
It only presupposes that ‘God’ is a symbol for an enforcer of laws that are above human laws. This is self-evidently a pre-requisite for Bitcoin.