"Stockholm syndrome, or capture-bonding, is a psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and sympathy and have positive feelings toward their captors, sometimes to the point of defending and identifying with the captors."
https://www.google.ca/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=fmo4VarrMImN8QfusIGgAg&gws_rd=ssl#q=...
A combination of the illusion of complete control, backed by physical 'evidence' of constant life-threatening power, results in a subject finding a single entity as being both the beginning - and end - of every one of the subjects life experiences. In this way, I think there could be comparison between the behavioral characteristics of the fervently faithful, and those who suffer a form of Stockholm Syndrome.
Do you agree, or disagree? What difference - if any - would concluding for either side make in the way you interact with the faithful? Or for people suffering diagnosed Stockholm Syndrome, for that matter.
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