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How Could You Warn of the Apocalypse Without Sounding Like an Apocalypse Cult?

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Ben Sixsmith
Oct 08, 2026
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Claire Lehmann writes for The Dispatch about how “effective altruists” have become a “millenarian cult”. “Like the millenarian movements described by [Norman] Cohn,” Claire writes, “they believe history is approaching a turning point and that those with an understanding of the existential stakes have a duty to guide humanity through it.”

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