2007-09-07 13:09:44 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
obviously you have the stockholm syndrome
2007-09-07 13:16:43 · update #1
On the contrary.
I used to be chained to alcohol, cigarettes, pot, LSD, speed, fear, greed, deceitfulness, selfishness, hatred and a hundred other vices, and Jesus Christ set me free by the power of His Holy Spirit. I serve Him because I love Him.
I love Him because He first loved me, even to the point of dying on a cross.
2007-09-07 13:15:20 · answer #1 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 5⤊ 6⤋
Absolutely. Christians believe that they are "unworthy sinners," and that the only way to avoid "eternal damnation" is to conform to the rules of a religion.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/clark6.html
Psychiatrists have identified a few basic aspects of this apparently strange phenomenon. It stems primarily from a person’s feeling of relative helplessness, and a feeling that one’s survival depends on not upsetting an irresistible force that could punish him. A person starts to try to rationalize the situation in which he finds himself. It is hard to fathom meaningless violence, or to live in fear of being killed or punished for no reason. The victim tries to convince himself that the captors are not sadistic beasts, but that they are quite rational and would not do violence to a person unless they had a good reason. Small acts of kindness (such as allowing the hostage to eat) tend to reinforce the hostage’s desire to see the captors as decent people who would not harm a captive unless that captive did something stupid. That helps a captive feel like he is really to some degree in control of the situation, by being a "good" hostage, rather than feeling helpless.
Invariably the victims go out of their way to try to placate their captors, or people who have power over them. When the captors complain how just their cause is, the captive who fears punishment will not argue with the captor, he will say something like, "I’m sure you really do have a lot of legitimate grievances." Under the pressure of the situation people actually begin to empathize with the hostage takers.
All of this can perhaps be explained much more simply by saying that when people encounter a circumstance which they cannot change, they try to convince themselves that the situation is not really unbearable. It is understandable why people do this. It is hard (and probably unhealthy) to go through life angry. For the slave who feels that he cannot escape it is comforting to think, "Oh well, I really don’t have it so bad."
2007-09-07 13:31:25 · answer #2 · answered by YY4Me 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
At least in the Stockholm Syndrome, you are feeling human affection with someone who at least may have a trace sample of basic goodness and virtue. In this case, it is like sympathy for the Devil, realizing that the bad does have some good qualities, and reasons for being so. God, however, has no motivations, declares himself as perfect and is excepted as such, and in the same breath kills more than any human being ever could, than humanity collectively ever could. It is like Stockholm Syndrome if you were with the world's biggest megalomaniacal, genocidal freak and deemed him to be best, most loving, altruistic friend ever!
2007-09-07 13:21:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes! Christians are held hostage by the promise of a life after death. Religion was invented to make dying less scary. You might be interested in "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins, which proposes that religion is kind of like the spiritual equivalent of a really catchy song: a powerful idea with the ability to stay in the minds of those it infects and spread to others as well.
2016-04-03 09:41:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no they don't actually I think it's the other way around sinners have the stockholm syndrome....satan chains you up and you still keep loving Him!!
2007-09-07 13:15:53 · answer #5 · answered by Jesus is Wuts up^ 3 · 3⤊ 3⤋
This question obviously went right over a lot of heads!
2007-09-07 13:22:29 · answer #6 · answered by Champion of Knowledge 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A soul is a terrible thing to waste.
2007-09-07 15:20:40 · answer #7 · answered by demandfreespeech 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
So you are saying we do? Do you love being unstable because someone thinks you should be a Christian? You are the one that should feel chained because you can't turn loose and live your life, you have to cling to Christians to taunt them.
2007-09-07 13:14:57 · answer #8 · answered by mesquiteskeetr 6 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Hmmm.
Confusing.
I'm Christian. I'm not chained.
In fact, I clearly see the gift of free will. AND, I understand that I am responsible for the consequences of my acts and words (ie, the outcome of my free will).
So, what exactly are you trying to ask?
2007-09-07 13:14:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 3⤋
You could say the same about Democracy.
2007-09-07 13:22:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Christ has set us free..and we love him for that.
If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
2007-09-07 13:25:34 · answer #11 · answered by Eartha Q 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋