I think it goes to show the ego Negan has built up and his view of how people work on the inside . At this point , he ' s basically been nothing but net in the apocalypse . He honestly believes he is bringing order back to the wastes , and he ' s so used to fear and submission that he misunderstands why people bow to him . He seems to genuinely think Dwight is his friend , and that by making people his wives , they love him . I think Negan is someone who ' s spent so long listening to his own bullshit that he ' s begun to believe it . <| sep |> GIFV linkI am a bot . bot <| sep |> I ' m usually better than this <| sep |> He ' s a real human being <| sep |> I ' m surprised they ask the religion first . That ' s called identity priming and can mess with the results .