What's the Difference Between Reality Mindset and Mythology Mindset?

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Most of the people who showed up on January 6th were just regular people with jobs and families. They're more than ordinary. So what are they doing there? And why, you know, why did they accept Trump's claim that the election was rigged and not say Bill Barr's head of the Department of Justice looked into it, couldn't find anything? Why don't they accept him? I wouldn't even know who to call. Right? How would I check that? I don't know. But that guy, he's the head of our tribe, our group, he says it and he probably knows and I'm just going along with it because I have no way of knowing for

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.