Deconverts often become bitter toward their former belief community.
Evidence
With her change in thinking, her ghost hunting team broke up under intense personal hostility between the group that wanted to do investigations according to scientific principles, and another, which continued to use Ouija boards, spiritualist sessions and crystal pendulums. … Nowadays, she explains this to herself by her bitterness back then about the years and money she wasted as a ghost hunter. “But that was my fault; that was nobody else’s fault.” Now, studying psychology, she makes a point of addressing ghost believers on her blog, offering explanations rather than refuting claims. — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 209
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Debunking old illusions becomes a new ideology that destroys their truth. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 685; Renouncing past ideology sacrifices hardcore members needed for ground mobilization