The D.O.A. Cult. What explains their behavior?

 

What has happened amongst the D.O.A. Cult * was explained by researchers back in the 1950s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Prophecy_Fails

Conditions for increased fervour after disconfirmation

Condition	Effect
"1. A belief must be held with deep conviction and it must have some relevance to action, that is, to what the believer does or how he or she behaves."	Makes the belief resistant to change.
"2. The person holding the belief must have committed himself to it; that is, for the sake of his belief, he must have taken some important action that is difficult to undo. In general, the more important such actions are, and the more difficult they are to undo, the greater is the individual's commitment to the belief."	Makes the belief resistant to change.
"3. The belief must be sufficiently specific and sufficiently concerned with the real world so that events may unequivocally refute the belief."	Exposes believers to the possibility of their belief being disproved.
"4. Such undeniable disconfirmatory evidence must occur and must be recognized by the individual holding the belief."	Exerts pressure on believers to abandon their belief.
"5. The individual believer must have social support."	While an individual might be unable to resist the pressure to abandon their belief in the face of disconfirming facts, a group might be able to support each other to maintain the belief.

Ms. Ann has failed to convince anyone but her D.O.A. Cult that Francis ain't Pope  and so the Cult responds to the failure by increasing their devotion to her false claims and they support each other in the shared delusion that of 1.2 billion Catholics alive right now she is the sole person who is right.

Thus, the entire Episcopacy, the entirety of the Cardinals who elected Francis as Pope, along with every singe Priest and Religious are wrong in thinking Francis is Pope.

It is how they roll...

* Disciples Of Ann