soft + gentle. Yes I do find believers are victims for the following reasons:
1 - When they self identify as such (e.g. 'slave' ). Many believers are taught to see themselves as subserviant ,and in need of something additional to make them whole (they are an imperfect person ), they are taught that certain natural thoughts and actions are sin and certain moral actions are wrong. They are taught im many cases a spiritual caste system where the woman is under the headship of a male and the family is under the influence of the clergy / guru / especially pious. They are taught to give of their resources in order to show obedience or love. They are bound to revere books or ideas of questionable worth or that are downright immoral and to subject their natural morality to an alien meme normally from an ancient superstitious culture.
2 - When they are given a worldview that is opposed to self criticism and the cost of 'doubt' questions are social censure, eternal punishment, damnation or some other punishment. A victim is in some way disempowered and the loss of freedom to think and question is one of faith / religion / beliefs primay goals and or side effects. The worldview is normally enforced upon a child or presented to the vulnerable (there are a few who come to religion with no unfulfilled needs, without coercion, love bombing or childhood inculcation and while I've never met such a person almost every single believer is convinced they would have always been <insert personal variety and degree of faith> regardless of culture or circumstance.)
3 - Believers have to sacrifice all things at the altar of faith (a recent poster confirmed that she is being forced to sacrifice real physical paradigms to accomodate her spiritual belief.) A worldview that will not co-exist with reality and requires a re-assessment of factual, objective evidence that is contrary to the observed phenomenon and does not contain the foundational truth that IT must change according to the facts is ultimately nothing more than a mental cage.
4 - Faith has a fundamental aversion to verifiable evidence. It makes a virtue from only seeking information from sources that support it. Since belief in magic is inherantly wrong all evidence detracts from faith ( thus thunder is no longer taken as proof of Norse gods nor the sun as evidence of an Egyptian sky deity - more recently christianity is adapting to having creation quashed by evolutionary theory .) Faith is thus antithetical to rational, reasoned, ammoral knowledge aquisition. It has been at the forefront of bigotry, stupidity , rigid ceremonial performance and factual buffoonery. Adherants aquiese to leasing their brains to demonstrably incorrect and fantastical mythology.
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