2007-08-20 09:29:28 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think there's a connection between someone who REALLY believes and supports something with all their soul, and people who crowd around them and want something deeper.
People want something bigger than them. When they find it, no matter what it is, they embrace it.
So, yes.
2007-08-20 09:34:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Most people of faith were not under a compulsion to stay and listen. Some, of course, were trapped in small communities where there was a high price to pay for acting as if one believed something else than the local dogma d'jour.
2007-08-20 16:35:58 · answer #2 · answered by Ward 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on the faith. With the Abrahamic religions, I think that the psychology is pretty much spot on. Affection and loyalty to the captor who controls you by keeping you under constant threat of death or torment and holding out the hope of eventual freedom and happiness. Maybe they should have called it "Jerusalem Syndrome"...
2007-08-20 18:00:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I've asked the very same question.
"My captor doesn't threaten me with violence and death in the event that I don't obey his every command, he HELPS me obey so that he won't have to hurt or kill me!"
"God doesn't threaten me with Hell in the event that I don't obey his every command, he HELPS me obey so that I won't have to go to Hell!"
2007-08-20 16:33:28 · answer #4 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Exactly.
2007-08-20 16:34:10 · answer #5 · answered by S K 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋