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You may have already seen it, but one of the most famous cases of religious failure leading to deepened faith in some of the adherents is the Great Disappointment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Disappointment

One of the groups that formed out of it is still active today more than 150 years later.

>>wpietr+(OP)
Thank you, no, I was not familiar with it.

In line with what I have noted elsewhere:

Many followers had given up their possessions in expectation of Christ's return...

There were also the instances of violence: a Millerite church was burned in Ithaca, New York, and two were vandalized in Dansville and Scottsville. In Loraine, Illinois, a mob attacked the Millerite congregation with clubs and knives, while a group in Toronto was tarred and feathered. Shots were fired at another Canadian group meeting in a private house.

Perhaps we shouldn't give people so much hell for simply being wrong?

>>Doreen+31
I expect it wasn't simply being wrong that got them tarred and feathered.

>>Doreen+31
I bet at least some of the vandalism of Millerite churches was carried out by recently made ex-Millerites who were mad about being duped. Of anybody around, they had the most reason to be upset. Some of those people gave up all their belongings because of the cult, and subsequently had nothing to lose when their belief system crumbled.

>>LarryM+g5
Thank you. That's a very reasonable suggestion.