Invading Babylon, Seven Mountains Mandate

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Pentavostal movement is becoming heavily political and you know, in many ways they are distinguishable. It directly inspired some people who took part in the January 6th Capitol riots in Washington two years ago. The seven spheres are education, religion, family, business, government, arts and entertainment and media. So this would be an example of kind of the church being actively involved in people's lives from the bottom to the top.

Shermer and Hardy discuss: Hardy’s religious journey (raised Catholic, now agnostic) • origin of Pentecostalism and its biblical basis Pentecostalism in Korea North and South, and Israel • the structure of the Pentecostal church and how it differs from other churches • Seven Mountain Mandate • how religions grow • pentecostalism and politics • the psychology of the believer • dispensationalism and the Rapture • prophecy • glossolalia • snake handling • eschatology and end-times theology • sin and redemption • prostitution • Jordan Peterson and secular religion.

Elle Hardy is a journalist and foreign correspondent who has reported from the United States, the former USSR and North Korea, among a long list of places. Her work has appeared in GQ, Lonely Planet, Foreign Policy and Business Insider, and on ABC Australia. Her new book is Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity is Taking Over the World.