The Pentecostal Movement Is Not Just About Law and Order

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The Pentecostal movement is really going over and above, you know, what your old school, even Billy Graham's and Jerry Falwell's were really that into. It's not just just trying to get some extra people in the tent before judgment day. There really is that profound sense that the liberal secular world is closing in on us. We need to make all these changes. Everything's going to hell. And so it's yeah, the people who have the incentive to motivate other people just really want profound change.

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.