Can you name some disillusioned people you've met in life? How about a woman who is so badly hurt by her husband committing adultery with a younger woman and then divorcing her, that she wants nothing to do with men? How about a child who believes in Mom and Dad, only to discover that they have frequently lied to him? How about the students of a beloved teacher who find out that their teacher is a pedophile who is going to prison for his sexual molestation of children? How about parishioners who love their pastor, only to discover that he has been cheating on his income tax for years?

We could go on with many illustrations about disillusioned people in the negative sense of that term. That's how we normally use the word "disillusioned." We normally think of it in terms of disappointment, …